Greg Abbott: “We had to tie the hands of these leftist judges who were…”

“We cannot let the injustice of what these judges are doing in Harris county as well as Dallas county and Bexar County, Travis county and so many other places. We had to fix this broken bail system. We had to tie the hands of these leftist judges who were letting these very dangerous criminals back out on the street. And that's exactly what these laws. Do you think that voters come November that they will, they will vote for this? Sure.” (01:10–01:17)

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