Fox News host Tucker Carlson debated Texas governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, shortly after calling Abbott a liar in regard to unfulfilled campaign promises by the governor to secure the border with 10,000 National Guardsmen.
Abbott opened by taking issue with data cited by Carlson regarding the available strength of the Guard in Texas.
“First, let’s do the math based upon what you laid out,” Abbott told Carlson. “We actually don’t have 19,000 National Guard at our disposal.”
“The reason is because Texas leads all states in the country in having our National Guard deployed to regions across the entire world, and so thousands of our National Guard are actually in other countries at this time,” Abbott added.Carlson responded by asking why Abbott was bragging about having Texas Guardsmen being deployed overseas instead of to the border, and asked why border deployments wouldn’t be a better use of the Texas National Guard’s […]
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