US Chamber of Commerce

The US Chamber's framework — pro-business, free-trade, light-touch regulation, immigration reform including skilled-labor pathways, tort reform — aligns Abbott on tax cuts, deregulation, tort posture, the Samsung Taylor and Tesla-relocation announcements, and the broader Texas-business-climate pitch. He runs against the Chamber on the Trump-tariff defense (the Chamber has been openly critical) and on the immigration-restriction package (the Chamber consistently supports comprehensive immigration reform with legal-pathway expansion). Hinojosa runs with the Chamber on the immigration-reform strand and on the predictability/civic-stability strand but against on tax-the-billionaires framing and minimum-wage support. Abbott is the substantially closer Chamber fit on the dollar-and-deals strands; Hinojosa picks up moderate credit on the immigration strand.