And I want to thank all of the volunteers,
all of our supporters and my fellow Texans
for making this victory night possible.
Thank you all for a third straight decades,
third straight term Texans
will remain a Republican state.
Governor Greg Abbott accepted
his victory overnight,
beating out Beto O'Rourke.
And we took a look at the numbers
this morning with about 82% of
precincts reporting the numbers pretty.
Overwhelming for Governor Abbott,
4.3 million folks voting in his favor.
3.4 million for Beto O'Rourke.
That's a 55 to 40% split of a
pretty handy win for the incumbent.
Yeah, so we start our team coverage
with Morgan Young, who has a closer
look at the governor's race and
and what comes next for Texas.
After a long, hard fought and expensive
gubernatorial race for the state of Texas,
we now know that Governor Greg Abbott
will hold his seat as governor,
making this his third term.
And it will also mean that Texas will have a
Republican governor now for three decades.
This of course was a race that centered
on several issues and got very heated
when it came to some of the more
controversial ones for our state.
Abbott really ran his campaign focusing
on the issues of immigration and border
security as well as crime and public safety.
From a work we saw a really big push
for voting rights and gun control in
wake of the tragedy. And you balding.
We saw very different approaches
leading right up to Election Day.
We know that Governor Abbott did not
hold any rallies or campaign events in
the days leading up to Election Day.
And that O'Rourke really stayed on
that campaign trail right up until
his election night party,
making three stops on Election Day.
When those results came out,
we heard from Governor Abbott.
He gave a victory speech where he
essentially said that Texans have spoken
and he really spoke to his issues,
thanking his supporters and El Paso.
We heard from Beto O'Rourke,
who thanked his supporters,
actually
really calling out those supporters.
Who have been behind him since his
Senate race in 2018. One of the first
things he said is that this could be the last
time that he really addresses
all of his supporters,
so he was sure to thank them and
thank his family.
I just want to begin by thanking
each and every single one of you.
You've been so amazing for us, with us,
to us for the duration of this,
and I and I cannot thank you enough.
And one thing
that we thought was really
interesting to note is that both
of these candidates chose to have
their election night watch parties
right on the border in El Paso.
Beto was about 2 miles.
On the border, of course,
Governor Abbott had his election
night watch party in McAllen,
about 7 miles from the border.
So an interesting strategy
from both candidates.
Of course, we now know that Governor
Abbott will remain the Governor of Texas.
As for what's next for Beto O'Rourke,
he said he doesn't know,
but he says he will stay really
passionate about the issues that he
has run his campaign on in El Paso.
I'm working, yeah.
We heard from the Jason's last night.
You know such an overwhelming VV
for the Governor Democrats kind
of looking for a silver lining
wherever they could find it.
Cleo Greens got the county
by county breakdown.
Yeah so Cleo there was really one
county in North Texas. I I can see
it from here that's swung for work
of course Dallas County as well
and Karen marked those votes are
still coming in this morning.
But as you can see here Abbott taking
that lead by about 11% this morning with
nearly eight million votes here it's
really a sea of red here in the state
of Texas indicating the cities and.
Counties that Abbott was able to hold down,
very similar to his win in 2018.
Take a look here.
Alright, let's zoom in into our
four biggest counties here and
show you what's going on here.
Of course, Dallas County remaining
blue here with those votes,
Beto taking it by 63% to 36%,
will go over here to Fort Worth.
This was a county that many people
thought may have turned blue.
Very close here, 51 to 47%.
Let's go up here to Denton County,
56 to 43,
and then we'll end here in Collin County.
54% to 44% let's zoom out here
because Beto did win in some
key cities and counties here.
We'll go to Austin here winning 73% to 26%.
In Travis County,
we'll go down here right below
Travis County to Hayes County.
55 to 44 out in Houston.
He won big here in Harris County,
54% to 45 who won in his hometown of El Paso.
And then we'll come down here to
Hildago County because they don't
actually won this county 59% to 44 cent.
Very interesting that Governor Greg
Abbott held his victory speech in
McAllen here in Hidalgo County.
I'll send it back to you, Kara.