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Aggregate score
Abbott 3.9Hinojosa 5.4 H +1.5
Scoring · Business leaders

Dimon, Jamie
1956–

5
Margin
tie

Dimon's framework — skilled immigration, infrastructure investment, fiscal restraint with strategic spending, stakeholder capitalism (the 2019 Business Roundtable statement he co-signed), and a generally pro-trade posture — splits this race. Abbott aligns with Dimon on infrastructure (Samsung Taylor, TRAIGA sandbox, Texas CHIPS Act) and on the business-relocation pitch but runs against Dimon on skilled immigration (ending DACA-related driver's licenses, in-state tuition reversal). Hinojosa runs with Dimon on immigration humaneness, on her data-center cost-allocation framing (which Dimon would recognize as basic externality pricing), and on HB 3488 Public Benefit Corporations (a stakeholder-capitalism legal form). Both candidates have mixed records; Hinojosa is moderately closer on the structural strands, Abbott on the dollar-and-jobs strand.

Sources

  1. Office of the Governor, 'Governor Abbott announces Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant to Samsung Austin Semiconductor.' (full list)
  2. Hechinger Report, 'What's happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students,' 2025. (full list)
  3. E&E News, 'Spiraling energy costs may tighten Texas governor's race,' 2026. (full list)
  4. Texas Legislature Online, HB 3488 (85R, 2017), Gina Hinojosa author — creating Texas Public Benefit Corporations. (full list)
  5. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder letters; Business Roundtable stakeholder-capitalism statement (2019). (full list)