Davis Kicks Off Texas Campaign With No Talk of Abortion

Wendy Davis (D) “talked a lot about the issues she wants to emphasize in her race for Texas governor: public education (she’s for it) and hyper-partisanship and political cronyism in Austin (she’s against it). But the one thing she didn’t talk about — the very thing that has made her suddenly a viable statewide candidate — was conspicuously absent,” the Dallas Morning News reports.

“Thursday’s kickoff announcement was not the place to discuss abortion or women’s health care. But because those issues will most certainly be a subtext of her opponent’s attacks against her, Davis is going to have to find a way to talk about them.”

The Fix: “How much of a chance does Davis have to accomplish what no Democrat has since 1990? In short, a very slim one.”