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October 20, 2014      5:18 PM

Notes from the campaign trail – Interracial marriage edition

Controversy erupts once again when Abbott is in a setting where follow-up questions are allowed

The campaign of Sen. Wendy Davis stayed on the attack Monday, making a new argument against Attorney General Greg Abbott and once again generating some national and even international headlines. Davis’ campaign seized on the fact that when the Republican AG met with the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board, he refused to answer a question about whether he would defend a law banning interracial marriage.

Here’s what Peggy Fikac of the Express-News wrote in her column about it:

“Right now, if there was a ban on interracial marriage, that’s already been ruled unconstitutional,” Abbott pointed out. “And all I can do is deal with the issues that are before me … The job of an attorney general is to represent and defend in court the laws of their client, which is the state Legislature, unless and until a court strikes it down.”

When I said I wasn’t clear if he was saying he would have defended a ban on interracial marriage, he said, “Actually, the reason why you’re uncertain about it is because I didn’t answer the question. And I can’t go back and answer some hypothetical question like that.”

By Scott Braddock