FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cannot reasonably be accused of always playing to his party’s lowest common denominator.
That territory is typically occupied by his more provocative Republican peers, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton — not to mention his recently routed primary challengers.
But his announcement Wednesday that Texas would be chartering buses and offering to bring migrants at the border straight to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington — where the Biden administration “will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” he said — played like red meat in a media environment that often glosses over nuance and mistakes meaning.
