Priority Differences - How are Chris' priorities on key issues different from his opponent's?
School Vouchers
Chris Jimenez
Opposes school vouchers; pledges to reject programs that shift public funds to private schools
Caroline Harris Davila
Voted in 2025 for SB 2 (2025), creating Texas's first statewide private school voucher program which now moves $1B of public money to private schools and homeschooled children for 2025–2027 instead of helping the Texas public schools succeed
School Funding
Chris Jimenez
Pledges to raise the basic allotment to match inflation
Caroline Harris Davila
Basic allotment was frozen at $6,160 from 2019–2024; rose only to $6,215 in 2025. On the 2025 budget, she was on the opposing side of a $6.5B teacher pay amendment that passed the House 82–66 but was later stripped
Cost of Living/Housing
Chris Jimenez
Supports sustainable solutions to lower property taxes and improve affordability: housing supply, property taxes, food security and healthcare costs. He proposes permitting changes to the property-tax treatment of some rental properties and a landlord tax-increase cap
Caroline Harris Davila
Voted for the 2023 package with $7.6B in tax rate compression (10.7¢ cut) plus raising the homestead exemption to $100,000 — benefits homeowners directly. families. She has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobby groups that represent corporate and insurance special interests and voted to allow them to hide why they deny insurance coverage
Healthcare Coverage
Chris Jimenez
Seeks to expand Medicaid coverage for working adults in the "coverage gap,” bringing hundreds of billions in tax dollars back to Texas
Caroline Harris Davila
Voted against Medicaid Expansion, denying affordable coverage to 8,700 Williamson County residents. Harris Davila has taken thousands of dollars from special interests in healthcare
Healthcare Cost Approach
Chris Jimenez
Strongly supports coverage access, mental health as preventive care, and maternal/postpartum care expansion
Caroline Harris Davila
Authored SB 490 and other bills (HB 208, HB 408) requiring itemized billing and price estimates from healthcare providers — targets price transparency rather than lower costs
Growth, Water, Data Centers
Chris Jimenez
Supports data center moratorium. Has committed to fight for transparency for data centers water consumption, grid capacity, groundwater protection and making large projects pay their infrastructure costs
Caroline Harris Davila
Published priorities emphasize border security, election integrity and human trafficking more prominently. Harris Davila received around $23,000 from a Meta-backed political action committee during the Texas Republican primaries, where tech companies targeted state-level policies surrounding data centers and AI regulation
Public Safety
Chris Jimenez
Supports law enforcement and emphasizes training, behavioral-health crisis response, domestic-violence prevention and reducing recidivism
Caroline Harris Davila
Emphasizes additional law-enforcement resources, particularly in connection with border security, drug trafficking and human trafficking
Voting/Government
Chris Jimenez
Supports easier ballot access, fair maps, free speech, protest rights and stronger whistleblower protections
Caroline Harris Davila
Makes “election integrity reform” one of her stated priorities. Voted for 2025 mid-decade redistricting to protect GOP political power in Congress
Personal Healthcare Decisions
Chris Jimenez
Explicitly supports keeping government out of private medical decisions and protecting patient/physician autonomy
Caroline Harris Davila
Her public profile is focused on conservative social-policy priorities; describes herself as pro-life, has voted numerous times to restrict reproductive care access, and received an endorsement from Gov. Abbott citing her pro-life credentials