When the Texas Governor has a significant challenger from the right, you quickly discover what the hell is to the right of Greg Abbott.

Don Huffines, Texas GOP candidate for governor, says he won't fire his campaign staffer with white nationalist ties bc he doesn't engage in "cancel culture."

via @emilylhernandez https://t.co/W7SmTGxq50

— Rebekah Allen (@rebekahallen) January 20, 2022

Huffines is a former State Senator and is a grossly wealthy developer in Fort Worth.  He’s not an outlier  Republican.  He’s mainstream and Greg Abbott is far too liberal for him.

Huffines probably won’t win the primary but he’ll push Abbott to the bigot right. I don’t think Huffines’ ties to the white nationalists was exposed by accident. It’ll force Abbott into doing something brutally racist before the March primary.