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A new poll shows Governor Greg Abbott building his support against Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke. The CBS News poll has Abbott up eight-points over O'Rourke, 49% to 41%. O'Rourke has attempted to gain ground by politicizing the deadly school shooting in Uvalde and the deaths of 53 illegal immigrants in a hot trailer in San Antonio last week. The new poll shows Abbott is in a good position to be elected to a third term in November, and the Republicans could keep control of both houses of the state Congress.