Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa on Tuesday unveiled her first TV ad buy, a $340,000 campaign aimed at closing the gap with Gov. Greg Abbott has he vies for a historic fourth term.
Scheduled to air in cable markets statewide, the 30- and 60-second spots feature Hinojosa’s supporters excoriating Abbott for looking after billionaires’ interests while average Texans struggled with high property taxes, rural hospital closures and encroachment by data centers.
“I’ll take on the billionaires who bought this governor, the big corporations jacking up costs and the politicians who lined their pockets and forgot who they serve: you,” Hinojosa, a state representative from Austin, says during the minute-long ad.
The new ad buy brings Hinojosa’s campaign spending to nearly $1 million, a spokesperson told the Dallas Morning News. The campaign began spending on digital ads last month.
The new ad spending comes as polls show Hinojosa narrowly trailing Abbott and some political watchers predicting she may give the incumbent the tightest victory margin he’s yet faced.
Even so, Abbott closes out the race with $67 million in campaign funds at the end of the second quarter, compared to Hinojosa’s modest $3 million war chest.
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