AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has a double-digit lead over Beto O’Rourke in North Texas in the race for governor, according to a breakdown of voters in a new poll from The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas, Tyler.
Abbott, a Republican seeking a third term, was ahead of O’Rourke by 54% to 35% in North Texas, as defined by the state’s leading economic-development booster group — not just Dallas-Fort Worth but Sherman-Denison and Wichita Falls as well.
Mark Owens, the poll’s director, divided the survey’s respondents into each of the Texas Economic Development Corporation’s six regions to determine how Abbott and O’Rourke, a former El Paso congressman, were performing across the state.
