Rick Perry, make way. Greg Abbott won’t be inaugurated as Texas’ new governor for six weeks, but on Friday he met President Barack Obama at the White House to talk about job creation, among other topics. On Sunday, he appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press as leader of a 20-state effort to upend the president’s immigration order. On Monday, in Austin, he will unveil his priorities for the coming legislative session. After 14 years of Perry in power, the Abbott era is now well underway. In his Meet the Press debut, Abbott said that the lawsuit he filed last week as Texas attorney general is not about immigration but abuse of power. “This issue in this lawsuit is not about immigration; the issue in...
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