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(CNN Spanish) --
The state of Texas will hold gubernatorial elections next Tuesday, November 8, the same day that the entire United States will vote for legislators for Congress in the framework of the midterm elections, the president's first great electoral test Joe Biden.
The current governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, will try to be re-elected for a third term after prevailing in his party's internal election, and will face Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke, who will seek to dethrone him after having also won the selection process in your community.
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Although eyes are focused on these two candidates, there are two other options in these elections: Delilah Barrios, from the Green Party, and Mark Tippetts, from the Libertarian Party.
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This is a look at the gubernatorial candidates in Texas.
Greg Abbott
Abbott, 64, has been governor of Texas since 2015 and won the Republican Party internal this year with 66.5% of the vote.
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The current governor is widely recognized as a defender of the right to bear arms, in his first campaign in 2014 he even had the support of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and has promoted legislation to extend this right.
In addition to maintaining a tight grip on the Texas governorship, Abbott is nationally aligned with former President Donald Trump.
In recent months he has been trying to cement the right-wing electorate with a law that restricts abortions in the state and other legislation that allows carrying weapons without a special permit.
Abbott, a fierce critic of Biden's immigration policies, began busing hundreds of volunteer migrants to Washington and New York earlier this year.
Texas has paid $12,707,720.92 to carry out these transfers, according to information obtained by CNN, and the number of affected migrants ranges between 8,051 and 9,033.
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Beth O'Rourke
Democrats have not governed Texas since 1995, when future Republican President George W. Bush succeeded Democrat Ann Richards.
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Now they hope to get closer to this possibility with O'Rourke, 50, who has been a councilman and mayor of El Paso, as well as a member of the House of Representatives from Texas, and won the Democratic internal for governor with 91.4% of the votes.
He also unsuccessfully competed in the 2018 senator election (which Ted Cruz won) and in the 2020 Democratic presidential elections (which Biden won).
Precisely in the 2020 elections, O'Rourke was in favor of confiscating the assault rifles held by the population, a measure resisted by the right-wing electorate.
On the other hand, in his first television campaign ad, O'Rourke questioned Abbott's restrictive abortion laws, warning "women will die."
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Delilah Barrios and Mark Tippetts
Among the options for governor is also the environmental activist Delilah Barrios, who is running for the Green Party of Texas.
On her official website she describes herself as "a working-class woman of color, mother of three beautiful children. This fight is not just for me or you, it's for all of us."
The list of candidates is also completed with legal adviser Mark Tippetts, who is running for the Libertarian Party.
"I am a libertarian and I am running for governor because I want to secure freedom for my children, for you and for future generations of Americans," he says on his website.
With information from Gregory Krieg.
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