Greg Abbott: “There have been more than 200 Texans who were murdered by…”

“Because these socialists, such as judges, they don't believe the criminals should be kept by bars. Instead, what they decide to do, even for murderers, is when they arrest them for murder, let that back on the street. There have been more than 200 Texans who were murdered by someone who had been previously arrested for murder. And that add on easier to bail by these progressive leftist socialist judges. And I said, I'm not going to tolerate that anymore. So I signed a law that keeps these dangerous criminals behind bars.” (07:10–07:19)

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