


Then Abbott appears, a clip from a highly circulated snippet of his post-Uvalde press conference where he says things "could've been worse," a phrase later employed in attack ads and billboards by groups like Mothers Against Greg Abbott who criticized his administration's response to the shooting in what has become a defining issue in his race against Democrat Beto O'Rourke. All of these are horrific signs something is terribly, terribly wrong." "Any one of these, a terrible shame for Texas. "Education system craters, abortion criminalized women's freedom taken away, property taxes crush home owners, property taxes actually higher than California," the narrator continues. Governor Abbott joined staff at Fratelli's Ristorante to campaign for reelection and encourage supporters ahead of this year's early voting. Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during the 'Get Out The Vote' campaign event on February 23, 2022, in Houston, Texas. And a border shutdown that led to massive supply chain shortages across the country, what the narrator called "another political stunt gone wrong." The failure of the Texas power grid during a massive ice storm resulted in numerous deaths. Texas governor Greg Abbott’s popularity has taken a hit after the state passed a restrictive new abortion law and as it grapples with spiralling Covid cases. The narrator reads off a list of all of the examples of mass shootings across the state during Abbott's tenure-Santa Fe, El Paso's Wal-Mart, Uvalde-alongside other, high-profile missteps under his administration. "Four years of sorrow, tears, anguish," a narrator reads. The advertisement, which is scheduled to air statewide through October according to FCC purchasing records, depicts a set of crying eyes against a black backdrop as images of guns and the Uvalde Elementary School hallway flash across the corner of the screen. A dark money group has taken out more than $6 million in advertisements ahead of the midterm elections criticizing Texas Republican Greg Abbott's performance as governor, including a clip of him stating a recent mass shooting of several dozen children and teachers at a Texas elementary school "coulda been worse" against revelations law enforcement in Uvalde did little to stem the violence.
