With coronavirus deaths in Texas now topping 14,000, Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. John Cornyn, and Republicans up and down the ballot would rather talk about anything else. Cornyn is tap dancing around new revelations about what President Trump knew about the virus earlier in the year and Gov. Abbott is doubling down on defending rather than "defunding" the police.

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