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Two volunteers for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s re-election campaign were assaulted Saturday while knocking on a door in a suburb of Houston, Harris County law enforcement officials said.
Suspects tracked two volunteers through the Humble neighborhood, ripped off the side mirrors of the vehicle they were in, and attempted to drag them out of the vehicle.
“Political violence will never be tolerated,” Mark Miner, spokesperson for Texans Greg Abbott, said in a statement Sunday.Election Day is just over a month away, but the passion to win , don’t inflate to something more dangerous, there’s no place like it in Texas.”
According to the campaign, Harris County law enforcement officers identified the suspect and found debris from a volunteer var in his trash can. He was arrested for obscenity.
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Photos released by Abbott’s campaign showed the car’s side mirrors broken.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office and the Humble Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for information on Sunday afternoon.
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Abbott is running for a third term against Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke, who is taking a second shot at Texas’s statewide office after losing to Republican Senator Ted Cruz in 2018. increase.
A recent poll by Real Clear Politics averaged Abbott leading O’Rourke by 7.5% about six weeks before the election. In Texas, the Democrats haven’t won a statewide office for nearly 30 years.