Davis prefaces her support for public education and veterans' benefits with a chronicle of her rise from poverty to her graduation from Harvard Law School, all amid shots of the Texas countryside. The four-minute advertisement is the first from Davis, a Democrat, who announced she would run for governor of Texas last week, a position held by Republicans since 1995.
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