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GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is fighting to avoid defeat in a hotly contested Republican primary runoff Tuesday, with a challenger attacking him for taking bipartisan votes, including helping pass a new gun law in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde in 2022. Voters are heading to the polls in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, a massive U.S.
You’re never gonna get it perfect, but you have to fight for the things that are important to us. Keeping our kids safe from being murdered from crazy people, that should be important to all of us.” “I’m not afraid of that vote. I’m not afraid of this runoff,” Gonzales added, a few minutes after he told moderator Margaret Brennan that, “I’m in the middle of a runoff fighting for my life, politically.
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