During former President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday evening to again run for the country’s highest office, he falsely claimed that every community along Texas’ southern border supported him in his last bid for presidency in 2020.
Trump added that Gov. Greg Abbott called him to congratulate him for his success along the Texas-Mexico border, despite the fact that the former president did not actually receive the support of all of the border communities.
In neither 2020 nor 2016 did Trump win all the southern border counties in Texas. The majority of residents in seven of the 14 counties in Texas that touch the southern border voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. In 2016, nine of those 14 counties went for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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