Wendy Davis was flanked by her father and her daughters during her 2012 victory speech in Fort Worth. (File 2012)
The president urged participants to get out and vote, warning Democratic apathy would leave Republicans dominating statewide offices.
Republican Greg Abbott, whose campaign ads have tried to link the unpopular president directly to Davis, jumped on the connection.
“In the final hours of the election, President Obama is going all in for Sen. Davis, making a personal appeal to push their shared agenda of bigger government, more regulations, higher taxes and fewer jobs,” said Abbott spokesman Matt Hirsch.
The Abbott campaign has been running statewide TV ads for weeks that portray Obama as governor in the event Davis won the office. The two have not appeared together in public.
On the phone call, billed as a electronic town hall meeting, were also former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk and Houston Sen. Rodney Ellis.
The phone call was a motivator for Democrats to get out and vote, said Davis spokesman Zac Petkanas.
“The goal in an election is to get more of your supporters out to the polls than the other guy’s,” said Petkanas. “That’s what this call was desigend to do and we trust it will.”