Texas Farm Bureau

TFB's framework — agricultural trade access (anti-tariff for cotton/beef/dairy export), farm-labor access (H-2A skilled-agricultural-labor), water rights, property rights, rural-healthcare access, opposition to estate tax — splits this race in unusual ways. Abbott aligns on property rights, estate-tax-repeal posture, regulatory rollback, and rural-hospital construction-grant funding ($1.4B federal, $239M state mental-health). He runs against TFB on tariff defense (Texas exports get hit) and on Operation Lone Star pulling DPS resources from rural counties. Hinojosa aligns on water-rights priority (she has explicitly centered water reliability), on legal-immigration humaneness for farm labor, and on rural-hospital protection via Medicaid-expansion. She runs against TFB on the estate-tax-and-deregulation strand. Abbott picks up the property-rights and rural-funding credit; Hinojosa picks up the trade/labor/water strands. Abbott is moderately closer overall.