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EXCLUSIVE: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas is spotlighting his efforts over the past year to beef up security at the Lone Star State’s southern border with Mexico in his closing campaign commercial ahead of the state’s March 1 primary.
The ad, which was shared first with Fox News on Thursday, will start running this weekend, ahead the kickoff on Monday of nearly two weeks of early voting.
The conservative governor, who’s running this year for a third four-year term steering Texas, is facing multiple Republican primary challenges from the right.
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The spot, which the Abbott campaign says it will spend roughly $2.5 million to run statewide, stars sheriff Bill Waybourn of Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, and sheriff Ray Del Bosque of Zapata County, which sits along the U.S.-Mexico border south of Laredo.
“There’s a clear and present danger in neighborhoods like this. It’s deadly fentanyl, and it’s killing our kids,” Waybourn says at the top of the ad. “How’s it getting here.”
“Right here, through our border,” Del Bosque says. “That’s why Gov. Abbott deployed the national guard to assist law enforcement at the border. He’s given us new authority to arrest trespassers and has increased jail capacity to handle criminal arrests. Joe Biden should be securing this border, but he won’t.”
“That’s why Gov. Abbott is getting the job done,” Waybourn says at the end of the commercial.
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Border security is a top issue for Texas Republicans, and in a report issued earlier this week, the governor praised Operation Lone Star. That’s the effort he launched early last year, amid a surge of undocumented migrants at the nation’s southern border, to increase apprehensions of alleged criminals and seizure of illegal drugs.
Texas Gov Greg Abbott, front center, is flanked by officials as he…
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