Scandal-Plagued GOP Lawmaker Forces Runoff In Republican Primary
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) will go head-to-head against his top challenger after neither candidate cleared a majority of votes.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) has forced a runoff election in Texas’ 23rd District, where neither he nor any of his three challengers managed to get 50% of the vote on Tuesday.
Gonzales and his top challenger, Brandon Herrera, a gun rights influencer, will go head-to-head in a May 26 runoff election to determine which man will be the Republican Party’s candidate in November’s general election.
The election will be a rematch, since Herrera also ran against Gonzales in 2024, but there’s a big difference this time: Gonzales is engulfed in scandal.
The third-term moderate allegedly had an affair with a staffer in 2024. Her marriage collapsed after her husband discovered the reported relationship, and he said she entered a depressive spiral, which ended in September when she set herself on fire and died.
Gonzales has denied the affair, but the staffer’s widower, Adrian Aviles, shared text messages with HuffPost and other news outlets from his late wife’s phone in which Gonzales asked her for a “sexy pic” and made other advances in 2024.
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