ABOUT GREG ABBOTT
48TH GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by TIME in 2024, Governor Greg Abbott is building upon his record as a strong conservative leader who fights to preserve Texas values and ensure the Lone Star State remains the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
Governor Abbott’s vision for an even stronger Texas is focused on creating more jobs and economic opportunity, educating the leaders of the next generation, protecting individual liberties, restoring parental rights in education, and upholding the highest standards of public safety.
BUILDING A STRONGER TEXAS
To ensure that Texas remains a beacon of liberty, Governor Abbott has taken unprecedented steps to secure our southern border, including busing migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., building the Texas border wall, declaring Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, and, through his Operation Lone Star border security initiatives, seizing enough lethal doses of fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States, Mexico, and Canada combined. His plan served as the blueprint for efforts by the new Trump administration to secure our border and protect our citizens from dangerous criminals.
Ever since brave pioneers first settled the untamed Wild West, Texas has offered the freedom and opportunities that can be found nowhere else. Each year Governor Abbott has been in office, Texas has been the number one state for business in America. Texas is the headquarter of headquarters, home to 54 Fortune 500 companies. The $2.7 trillion Texas economy is the 8th largest in the world. And as the number one state for tech exports, “Made in Texas” has never been a bigger brand.
But it’s not just big business that succeeds in Texas. Our great state is home to more than 3 million small businesses that employ almost half of all working Texans. Ranked the Best State for Business, we are home to more than 1.4 million women business owners, a whopping 10% of all women business owners in the nation. In Texas, everyone can succeed.
Governor Abbott provided additional property tax relief as part of the 89th Legislative Session. In addition, he empowered parents to control their children’s schooling and provided students with critical career training that can lead to high-paying, in-demand jobs. Last, he continues to fight to keep dangerous criminals behind bars, and he fixed our broken and deadly bail system.
PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT
Throughout his time in office, Governor Abbott has achieved significant legislative victories to build a safer, freer, and more prosperous future for all Texans. That includes:
• Freeing Texans from the burden of rising property taxes
• Defunding any city that defunds their police
• Recognizing only two sexes in Texas – male and female
• Protecting the lives of the innocent unborn
• Increasing healthcare services and access for all Texans – especially mothers, rural Texans, and first responders
• Providing more funding for public education than any other Governor in Texas history
• Ensuring Texas leads the nation in the number of Tier One Research Universities
• Preparing Texas’ energy grid for the future
A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE
PERSEVERANCE
A native Texan, Governor Abbott was born in Wichita Falls and raised in Duncanville. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University. Shortly after law school, he was paralyzed by a falling tree while jogging. From his faith and family, he gained strength, recognizing “our lives are not defined by our challenges, but by how we respond to them.”
