Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is 2 House votes away from passing school vouchers

Renzo Downy, The Texas TribuneWatch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clockon Wednesday urged school voucher supporters to make the final push in the May primary runoff elections to bring a pro-school voucher majority to the Texas House.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation, which hosts the annual Texas Policy Summit where Abbott spoke, embarked with Abbott more than a year ago on a "parent empowerment", holding events across the state to rally voters behind their efforts. However, the pro-voucher campaign is running out of time to chip away at the anti-voucher side, as Abbott says the final vote count on school vouchers in next year's legislative session will be decided in this year's primary runoffs.

"We don't want to rely upon a field-goal kicker," Abbott said. "We want to make sure that, when these runoffs are over at the end of May, that we are ahead by more than two points, or three points, or four points."

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