Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2022 Texas gubernatorial election" in English language version.
Much like the GOP primary for governor, the Democratic race offers a crowded field of candidates but only one who is a viable choice for the party to compete in November, and that is former congressman Beto O'Rourke.
He said he plans to run for a third term in 2022.
Even if Republicans aren't seeing their map expanding into new territory like South Texas, they can still clearly count on rural voters to hold the line against waves of new and potentially liberal voters moving into Texas' major cities, said Landry, the West Texas college professor. As large as the cities are and how Democratic that they are, Texas Democrats still don't have a way to get past that red wall of rural West Texas, he said. Rural Texas still rules the day. I was seeing some very, very close numbers before a lot of the rural counties reported [election returns], and once they did, it just blew the door open for Abbott.
He said he plans to run for a third term in 2022.