Texas governor race still tight weeks ahead of Election Day | What's Your Point?

They have shut down, Abbott has shut down the street in front of the governor's mansion where we were originally going to have this. They put moving trucks there, which I guess tracks with the polling. I didn't know he'd start moving out, so. Democrat Gina Hinojosa taunting the incumbent and kind of pimping fresh polling, which has her ahead in two of the last three surveys. Meantime, the governor stumping in East Texas, pushing his economic record just up the road in Huntsville. We rank number one for the most new jobs. Number one for the most economic development projects. More Texans have a job today than ever before in the history of our state. And importantly, the median household income is higher than it's ever been. And the poverty rate is lower than it's ever been in the history of Texas. Got to say, panel, Gina Hinojosa has gone from sacrificial lamb to legitimate contender. How are you seeing this race with 16 days to go? Sergio, I know you're a Gina fan. Absolutely. I mean, she's doing extremely well. You know, she's campaigning hard. She's appealing to the working class women. She's focusing on public education. She's against rewarding billionaires. I mean, she's doing a phenomenal. And I think that Texas is ready for the second woman governor of Texas named Gina. Look, I opined this week and said, I think that Greg Abbott is going to win because of his economic record and because independence will break his way. And I think that, you know, corn and voting Republicans are going to vote his way. And that's going to be enough, Charles. Yeah, I mean, I think he's taking it seriously because he should, and this is probably the most formidable opponent he's had. I mean, going back to Wendy Davis, she was a formidable opponent, but I think she was too far left and was on the heels of kind of the whole abortion bill thing or whatever that was. Her filibuster. Filibuster, yeah. And then the opponents since then have really not made a dent, but she's actually making one, I think largely because of the environment and the climate that we're in. And so he's taking it seriously, but I think if anyone has the least to worry about on the ballot, it's probably Abbott. All right, Bill, what's your take on this race? So the difference between Paxton and Abbott, as I said earlier, is that independents are not breaking six to one against Abbott like they are against Paxton. And Republican leaners are about 20 points above that. So if I had to bet money on this race, I'd bet that Paxton loses and Abbott holds on. But it's going to be a very close race, and it all gets down to turnout. But the two issues that are just killing Republicans right now is affordability and corruption and they're seen as the party that is endorsing corruption that largely comes from the president but it bleeds down to campaign contributions at the state level and all sorts of other things and the problem is you can argue all day long about the economic stats and i think everything greg said was true but that doesn't really cancel out when you go to the gas pump and you look at it and it's you know four or five dollars a gallon so what i hear is that if gina wins everybody's gonna win that would definitely probably yeah go ahead but but the governor's sitting there complaining about all these things but dude you're the one that's been in charge these are you have responsibility for this you know not anybody else her new ad that she just put out i think it's very clever when she says they talk about me being woke i'm gonna talk about everybody being broke i think it's an excellent ad i like that quickly bob she's she's a good communicator and you're right she's the most accomplished candidate to run against Abbott but Abbott's a fighter and he's got a great record to stand on I think people should look at her record in the legislature and make decisions based on that all right still ahead a fresh round of money woes descending on Houston City Hall the problem this time property values on the decline