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Despite Trump's pleas and being called out in public, Abbott never put the audit bill on the call, stressing that his own efforts through the Secretary of State's office would be sufficient.

Even so, both bills passed quickly in the Senate in early October, but neither received a committee hearing in the House. The legislative session ends Tuesday.

"It's clear the president was driving the narrative on much of this," said Brandon Rottinghaus, political science professor at the University of Houston, adding that the failure of these bills "does show you the limitation of Donald Trump on these voting issues."

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