Buffett, Warren
1930–

Buffett's framework — the Buffett Rule (taxing capital gains at ordinary-income rates above thresholds), opposition to estate-tax repeal, Berkshire's long-term-value investing, and his repeated 'stop coddling the super-rich' op-eds — sits poorly with both candidates' Texas-specific records but more poorly with Abbott. Abbott's property-tax cutting (including the homestead exemption raise) is broad-based, but his Yass-funded campaign infrastructure and the regressive distribution of franchise-tax exemptions skew against the Buffett frame. Hinojosa's 'tax the billionaires and corporations' framing and her data-center cost-shifting critique track Buffett's frame directly. Buffett's also a long-term investor in stability and rule of law — Hinojosa's institutional posture there earns additional credit. Hinojosa is the substantially closer fit.