“Overall, the president gets good grades from 44% of Texas voters and bad grades from 46% – numbers that are better or roughly the same as the state’s most popular Republican leaders. Underneath Biden’s overall numbers, as with other officeholders in Texas, are starker partisan grades: 88% of Democrats said Biden is doing a good job, and 86% of Republicans disapprove of the work he’s doing. Ted Cruz, overall, has the approval of 43% and disapproval from 48%. He’s more popular with Texas Republicans than the senior senator, too, with 80% saying they approve of the job he’s doing – 57% strongly so. Gov. Greg Abbott gets good marks from about as many Texas voters (43%) as give him bad marks (45%). He’s popular with Republicans, though: 77% approve of the way he’s doing his job. Those numbers are consistent with the way voters grade the governor on his response to the pandemic. Overall, 43% approve and 48% disapprove. Among Democrats, 87% disapprove, and among Republicans, 76% approve” Texas Tribune reports.

“Just over a third of Texas voters (35%) approve of the way Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is doing his job, while 39% disapprove. New House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, still hasn’t made an impression on most voters – a condition he has in common with most of his predecessors in that post. While 20% of voters said he’s doing a good job, and 22% said he’s not, 57% of the voters either have no impression of him or no opinion. Attorney General Ken Paxton, regularly in the news for legal actions involving the state and as the subject of an indictment on securities fraud and a federal investigation into allegedly using his public office to help a campaign donor, is doing a good job, according to 32% of Texas voters, and a bad one, according to 36%.”