
The candidates running for Texas governor, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis, held their first televised debate on Friday in heavily Hispanic South Texas, in the border county of Hidalgo in the Rio Grande Valley.
The county is 90 percent Hispanic. It was the first gubernatorial debate on the border since 1998.
Republicans have won every statewide office in Texas for 20 years, but the fast-growing Hispanic populati