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The Second Reading Podcast: A Primary Challenger for the Governor While the Texas House Responds to the Pandemic
May 11, 2021 | By: Texas Politics Project

In this week’s Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson & Josh Blank consider State Senator Don Huffines’ just-announced primary challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott as an entry point to a larger discussion of axes of conflict among Texas Republicans. This topic leads to a discussion of the institutional politics underlying the version of House Bill 3 passed by the Texas House this week, which tinkered with the checks and balances in the Texas Constitution when it comes to powers during a pandemic.

The podcast included reference to a few recent poll results – you’ll find graphics of some of them below the podcast link.

About the Second Reading podcast. The podcast has been produced intermittently by Jim Henson for the Texas Politics Project, with production support from UT's Liberal Arts Development Studio, since 2016. You can find past episodes and subscribe to the Second Reading podcast in Apple PodcastsSpotify,  and Stitcher.

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