Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa is scheduled to hold her first news conference Thursday at 2 p.m. since Texas voters elected her and a slate of Democrats to statewide offices, ushering in a new regime that will control several state offices in January.
Hinojosa is expected to answer questions and discuss the “next steps” for his administration, which will wield more power than expected after Democrats swept the state’s Republicans and took the Texas House. She will still face a Republican-majority state Senate, but with Democrats Vikki Goodwin as lieutenant governor and Nathan Johnson set to take over in the attorney general’s office, Hinojosa will have allies throughout state government.
Hinojosa’s public comments Thursday will follow “fruitful initial conversations” with incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who was ousted Tuesday in a stunning midterm election that ended the Republican Party’s decades-long hold on power in Texas.
The upcoming political realignment will have ripple effects across all areas and facets of governance. On the campaign trail, Hinojosa promised to give every Texas household $1,500 from the state savings account, end public school buyouts, roll back Abbott’s private school voucher program, expand Medicaid and purge the government of “waste, fraud and abuse.”
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