Texas Gov. Abbott Hosts Get-Out-the-Vote Event in Lindale

...of this great state, especially here in the great area of East Texas. To show you, as best as I can tell, I am the only governor to visit Lindale since Governor Hubbard back in the 1800s. As best as I can tell, I have visited Smith County more than any governor ever has visited Smith County, Texas during my time as governor. I know you, I know your values, and I know this. as I'm going to cover extensively today, your values are being challenged in this election. There are crazy radical leftists who think they can hijack Texas and destroy the values of East Texas. And you know what? We are not going to let that happen. So let me tell you about a large number. The large number is 2,600,000. Population-wise, that's more than the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth combined but in this case the number two million six hundred thousand is the number of new jobs added to Texas under my leadership as your governor that's more than added by any governor in Texas history more than any state during that time period and more Texans have a job today than ever before in the history of our great state wages are higher the poverty rate is lower and we're about to make it even better when we pass my affordability agenda that's going to drive down the cost of living for the average Texas family by more than four thousand dollars a year crime is lower our neighborhoods are safer and once again we have a secure border what you know one of the challenges we deal with with Joe Biden's open border policies was human trafficking. I want you to know I signed the toughest human trafficking laws of any state in the United States of America. But listen, as you guys get ready to go vote, this is one of those issues you got to understand. There's a big difference between myself and my opponent. As I was signing laws that cracked down on human traffickers, my opponent, Gina And then also, voted against that. She voted in favor of the human traffickers. That's crazy. It's outrageous. It's lawless. It's reckless. And we cannot let it happen. And that's why we are going to re-elect me as your governor for four more years. So I mention this word crazy. And candidly, that's the nicest thing we can call it. Because the fact of the matter is, if you look at my opponent's voting record. Well, let me set it up this way. Everybody here knows what a crazy nut job Tallarico is, right? Did you know that my opponent is far more progressive left liberal than Tallarico? She was the number one furthest radical liberal in the Texas House of Representatives. She makes Tallarico look like a conservative. And there is no way we will turn the levers of government over to Gina Hinojosa, that radical leftist. we're going to re-elect me as your governor once again let's just let's just reel through some of these policies and how important it is to you how important it is to all of our Texans listen one thing uh an episode we all had to go through was when Joe Biden was elected president and Joe Biden came in here and he opened the border wide open and Joe Biden allowed in more than thousands of illegal immigrants a day and Texas had to respond and i work with your legislators here and i signed the toughest ban on sanctuary cities in the United States of America Texas is the only state to ever build our own border wall and i signed the toughest law that makes it a state crime for illegal immigrants to cross the border into the state of Texas where they will be immediately deported from our state. All of these are really just common sense laws, right? Well, who could be against them? My opponent, Jeanne Hennis, voted against all of those. She voted in favor of sanctuary cities. Imagine if your next governor supported sanctuary cities like in Minneapolis and New York and Chicago and Los Angeles. It would destroy the state of Texas. Well, guess what? I know that Texans they want safe communities and secure borders and that's why I will be re-elected as your governor for four more years you know speaking of safe communities there's such a massive contrast between myself and my opponent in this race on the border stuff it gets even worse because there was a law that I was trying to get passed this last session the law was this and that If you're in the state illegally and you murder somebody, you should be kept behind bars without bail. That's just common sense, right? Gina voted against that. She prioritized illegal immigrants over the lives of our fellow Texans. She should never be allowed to be governor of the state of Texas. I'll tell you another reason why we've got to have four more years is because, listen, this is just crazy. Do you remember what happened early on in 2020, 2021, when you saw Minneapolis and Portland and Los Angeles and Chicago? They came out with these big, strong movements to defund the police. That's crazy. That's California. That's not Texas. In Texas, we support our law enforcement officers, period. My opponent voted to defund the police. That's crazy, and I made sure that did not happen because I signed a law backing the blue requiring every city and every county to fully fund our law enforcement officers. You know, we face challenges with regard to public safety. I want you to know something that I have announced and I've begun to implement across the entire state of Texas. I want to get dangerous criminals off our streets, And that's why I created a repeat offender task force where the state Texas Department of Public Safety is working with your local law enforcement, working with federal law enforcement, and we are identifying and going after and arresting repeat offenders who are roaming the streets, getting them off the streets before they harm any of our fellow Texans. We want to keep your community safe. We want to keep our borders secure. But we all have to understand this. We face another challenge to the safety of our state, to the dignity, to the sovereignty of our state. And that is, we've got to understand that China, Russia, Iran, our foreign adversaries are trying to destroy our state. And that's why I worked with your great legislators here. And I signed the toughest law in America banning foreign adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran from buying our land in the state of Texas. Listen, truly, this just makes sense, right? Who would want China coming in here and buying our land? Gina Hinojosa wanted it. She voted against it. Gina thinks it's just fine for China to buy your land, to ban connections to our power grid, to buy your water. That is insane. We must defeat Gina Hinojosa this election. I also used that law, and I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE as foreign terrorist organizations not allowed to operate in the state of Texas to show you the contrast in this election so I designate them as foreign terrorists and then earlier this week they came out and endorsed my opponent Gina Hinojosa who would do nothing about it in fact listen I worked with your legislators and we passed a law saying no Muslim-only cities or communities or compounds in the state of Texas it's just common sense who could be against that common sense Gina Hinojosa voted against it I'll tell you something else that's common sense in fact this is a this is a an issue that either qualifies you or disqualifies you from running for governor and that is the issue of taxes so I work with these members of the legislature And we passed repeatedly the largest property tax relief in the history of Texas. When I became governor, when I became governor, you had a $15,000 homestead exemption on your home. Now we've raised it all the way to $200,000 exemption from property taxes on your home. But listen, I got more. That's what we call a good start in the state of Texas. I got bored because you reelect me and we'll do these three things to cut your property taxes. Number one, your property taxes should never go up again without you having a say in it, without you having a vote in it. It requires a two-thirds vote margin before your property taxes can go up. Number two, your appraisals are going through the roof and it must stop. Your appraisals go up as much as 10% a year. We've got to lower that to no more than 3% a year. And last, think about this issue. Why is it that your homestead is being used to fund public education? That's not the responsibility of your homestead. That is the responsibility of the state of Texas. I want the state of Texas to be fully responsible for our obligation to fully fund public education and to educate our kids and put them on the pathway for Texas to rank number one in educating our children without using your homestead. And I want to zero out any property taxes you're paying to your local school district. Now, all together, we're going to slash your property tax bill by more than half, saving the average Texas homeowner more than $3,000 a year. But let me tell you something. If I'm not reelected, that's not going to happen. Because Gina, she voted for higher property taxes more than 40 times she actually came out in favor of an income tax in the state of texas saying that an income tax was the third leg of the taxing stool that was necessary to fund our government any candidate talking about imposing a state income tax is disqualified for running for governor in the state of texas something else that she came out for and that is to impose an inheritance tax on your kids on your grandkids that is wrong i and i made sure we protected your kids and your grandkids inheritance because we work together and pass a law saying no inheritance tax in the state of texas listen all of this comes down to really what this campaign is all about and that is common sense versus crazy uh and and what jenna has voted for and supported is just absolute crazy another thing that is maybe worse than the word crazy uh it is again a disqualifier for office in the state of texas one thing we all care about are our kids and we care about their safety and security we care about what they're doing in our public schools and things like that and one thing this common sense uh this for one is common sense but also taps into what our values are as East Texans and that is we all agree that boys should not be playing in girls sports in the state of Texas again it's common sense who could be against that common sense Gina Hinojosa she voted for boys and girls sports she even said she saw no reason why girls should be frightened or disturbed or threatened by boys and girls sports we need to send Gina Hinojosa packing and re-elect me as your governor for four more years that was all she had done with regard to that issue but but it went and this falls into that category because this is this is far worse what Gina voted for was to to use your taxpayer dollars to have our public schools assist young children in transitioning their sex behind their parents backs and voted to prosecute parents who supposedly misgender their own child in their own home it's crazy but don't worry about it because i worked with your legislators and i signed a law that provided the strongest parents' rights law in the United States of America, ensuring it's parents who get to decide what's right for their child. So guys, what are we here for today? We're here to get out the vote effort. We're here for elections. Elections that will be highly consequential. And I know that when you guys go vote, a concern you may have, a priority that I know you have, is to make sure there's going to be integrity at the ballot box. Am I right? We don't want any cheating or illegal voting, am I right? And so one thing that we did this last session, we made sure we'd have greater integrity of the ballot box because we made a constitutional amendment in the state of Texas that in Texas, only United States citizens can vote in our elections. It's just common sense, right? Who could be against that? Gina Hinojosa voted against that. Why would she vote against saying only U.S. citizens can vote in an election? Does she really want people here illegally to vote? I don't know. Ask her. But it's a crazy vote. But listen, as a concern of this election, man, we've got to get together to win. Because you've heard the contrast in this election. And I think Cole Heffner was telling you, and maybe the others were telling you before I came in, that there is extraordinarily high voter turnout for these Democrats. In Travis County, Austin, Texas, the bastion of liberalism. In Dallas County, down in Houston, Texas. And there's not as high of a percentage turnout right here in Smith County. Smith County values are on the balance. And there are far radical leftists who are trying to destroy your values. There's only one way to respond to that, And that is to get every conservative in Smith County to go to the polls and go vote and go vote early. So how many of you, how many of you have already voted? A good number. How many of you can go vote early today? There we go. And so one thing you want to do is to keep Smith County red and keep Texas red. Am I right? So let me give you a way that you can ensure that. Listen, I'm here today, and I'm going to be covering every corner of the state to get voter turnout. But this is a mission I cannot accomplish on my own. It's a mission that all of us candidates on the ballot cannot accomplish on our own. We need you to be a part of that process. And what that requires is for you to make sure you do your part to turn out the vote. and the first step to get that done is to get everybody in this room right now to get out your phone and turn it on. I'm serious. I need everybody to turn on your phone and fire it up because I'm going to walk you through a way to make sure we keep Texas red. So open up your phone you can turn back on your video here in a second. I want everybody that you're broadcasting live to hear this. Listen, if you're listening to this, you yourself turn on your phone. And so when you turn on your phone, I want you to go to your App Store. You know, everybody knows what that is. It's a blue icon. It has an A in the middle of it. And below it, it says App Store. You can't miss it. So click on App Store. And when you click on App Store, plug in the name Abbott, A-B-B-O-T-T. This is real simple. Go to your App Store and plug in the name Abbott. And the first thing, the only thing you'll find there, it says Abbott Impact. Click on Abbott Impact. And when you click on Abbott Impact, you're going to see a red icon pop up that has the Abbott Impact app. Oh, I just heard someone ding. Someone just downloaded the Abbott Impact app. I'd love to hear that ding. So click on the Abbott Impact app, and you're going to be amazed what I'm about to tell you. So download the Abbott Impact app. And then when you do that, you've got to do just three things. One is you've got to plug in your information, your name and all that kind of stuff, so that you'll set up your own profile. After you set up your profile, only two things you've got to do. One, click a button that's going to allow all of your contacts in your phone to be on that Abbott Impact app. This is great because wait until you hear this next step. The next step is click one more button. And when you click that one more button, it's going to connect all of your contacts in your phone with the Texas Voter Database. And let me tell you what that's going to show. First, know this. Everybody who's voted early, that is a public record anybody in the entire country can see. We know for a fact who's voted early. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It's a public record. And when you download the Abbott Impact app, when you add your contacts to that app, then when you add the Texas Voter database to the app, you yourself are going to know which of your contacts have voted and who has not voted. Right, right. Now you know where I'm going here. And so here's what we need you to do. We've got hundreds of people in this room. Altogether, we've got 100,000 contacts. Altogether. if all of you all download that app and start sending texts and communications to the people who have not yet voted, you're going to be responsible for turning out more than 100,000 votes to make sure we keep Texas red. If you want a red Texas, you've got to be a part of the solution. So let me break it down this way to show you how easy it is. Everybody here has shopped on amazon is that right most of you have here's how it works if you have it to shop on amazon you got to click on the amazon link then you click on buy again then you click on the item that you want you click on and put it in your basket and then you press uh pay and you're done that's five steps and if you want to order like a a red hat like this man has right here it's going to take five steps to order a red hat in just two steps using the Avid Impact app you can just as fast order a red state a red texas to be delivered this election we need you to be in charge of our destiny here in smith county in charge of our destiny in state of texas we must defeat these crazy radical leftists and we must vote for common sense in the state of texas we must re-elect Greg Abbott as your governor four more years, re-elect your great state representatives, and together we're going to keep Texas, Texas. Listen, you guys have been so great. What I'm going to do is I'm going to stick around here. What I'm going to do is I'm going to stay here and take a picture with everyone who wants a picture. However, two things are required. Either A, you have to have already voted, or B, you have to promise after taking a picture, you will go vote. So I have here the closest voting location. It's the Lindale-McKenzie Community Center. Y'all know where that, many of you know where that is. It's at 912 Mount Sylvan Street in Lindale. Here's the deal. It's less than a mile away. And I can tell you for a fact, in less than 10 minutes, I can roll over there. All Hot Wheels, right? So if Hot Wheels can make you can make it over there in ten minutes also go vote, come take a pic do your part to keep Texas Texas, God bless you all and God bless the great state of Texas all right, everybody's gonna start over here on this left side, actually on the right if everybody can come up with their phone