"You know it, brother. Hey, everything's bigger in Texas, man — and you can see the size of me"
Rodimer: "I'm running because we need to fight to keep our constitutional-friendly states."
"We need fighters in Texas, and and that's what I'm coming here for. I'm moving back to Texas. I have six children and I want them to be raised in a constitutional-friendly state." #TX06
Do you have Trump's support for this race? "We'll see," Rodimer says. #TX06
Matt Gaetz seemed to allude to Rodimer's candidacy in a tweet this morning:
News — @GovAbbott: "Effective next Wednesday, all businesses of any type are allowed to open 100%."
"Also, I am ending the statewide mask mandate." #txlege
Abbott: “If businesses want to limit capacity or implement add'l safety protocols, they have the right to do so. It is their business, & they get to choose to operate their biz the way they want to. At this time, though, ppl & biz don’t need the state telling them how to operate"
Abbott, nodding to concerns from local officials: "If COVID hospitalizations in any of the 22 hospital regions in TX rise above 15% of the hospital bed capacity in that region for 7 str8 days, then a co. judge in that region may use COVID mitigation strategies in their county"
.@TexasGOP convention opens with video of @GovAbbott giving vocal defense of mask mandate, executive power during pandemic
Abbott: “Now I know that many of you all are frustrated — so am I. I know that many of you do not like the mask requirement — I don’t either. It is the last thing that I wanted to do — actually the next to the last. The last thing that any of us want is to" shut Texas down again.
Abbott: "Each day the facts get worse. ... If we don't slow this disease quickly, our hospitals will get overrun and I fear it will even inflict some of the people that I'm talking to right now."
Cornyn campaign says buy is "nearly" six figures, running today through runoff in six markets: Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Harlingen and Beaumont