The congressman's early results fell under the 50% threshold to avoid a May GOP primary runoff against firearm salesman Brandon Herrera.
Newsrooms like ours play a key role in empowering voters with facts and analysis they can depend on.Gonzales lost ground over the evening as votes were counted, and had dropped to 45.8% of the Republican primary vote, per the AP, under the 50% threshold to avoid a May 28 runoff. Herrera had 22.6% of the vote.
“Tonight we won all 29 counties in the 23rd District of Texas,” Gonzales’ campaign said in a statement at 11:30 p.m. “Next we’ll do it again, only with a larger margin.”was once one of the most competitive U.S. House districts in the country, but was redrawn more favorably for Republicans after the 2020 census. It encompasses all or part of 29 counties, including northwest and southwest San Antonio, as well as hundreds of miles of the U.S. border with Mexico.
Since Republicans took control of the House at the beginning of 2023, however, they have yet to pass real spending bills, instead relying on temporary agreements to keep the government open. Meanwhile, Gonzales’ brand of politics, which includes negotiating with both parties on those agreements, has come under scrutiny from more hard-line conservatives, leading to his censure.
U.S. Rep. Greg Casar also did not draw a primary opponent. The former Austin councilman won a crowded Democratic primary in 2022 to take this bright blue seat. Since then, he has become co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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