Texans, did you know you reelected — cue dramatic music — an “election denier” as governor?
That’s according to the news site Axios. The way it reached that conclusion about Gov. Greg Abbott is a tale of our fractured media era, obliteration of nuance and Abbott’s efforts to straddle the fence. Let’s unpack it.
Shortly after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Axios posted a tracker looking at how “deniers” of the results of the 2020 presidential elections fared. It shows that of nine such candidates in key gubernatorial races, three won, including Abbott.
