This seems like a very nice gain for the populist right. Especially since I don't think MAGA has been particularly involved with Brandon's campaign. Gonzalez seems to have properly pissed off even establishment Republicans in Texas, and Herrera seems like he might be able to be endorsed by other primary candidates.
Considering that Texas 23 is also overrun with illegals (and a primary avenue of election fraud by Dems to create a blue Texas), this could be a big win. Especially to put a populist in the House (which is going to be a hard fight this year).
Herrera is going to have a lot of friends in the 2A community, as well as friends with the gun industry and the GOA. What he needs is a Trump endorsement to settle the matter and push Gonzalez out.
Trump endorsed Gonzalez in 2020, only for Gonzalez to vote for impeaching Trump on January 6th. Trump would eventually endorse Gonzalez's opponent, but to no avail. I know resources are thin, but this could be an easy win for Trump, securing an ally in the House, and putting a staunch 2A supporter in a position of prominence.
Last night, the people of Texas’ 23rd Congressional District sent a message: they’re done with Tony Gonzales and his betrayal of our shared conservative values.
Tony sabotaged fellow Republicans’ border reform bill and called it “anti-American” and “not Christian.” When Tony’s own district was being overrun with illegals, every other Republican member of Congress backed Texas Governor Abbott in his fight to secure the border except Tony. Instead, Tony voted to send $40 billion taxpayer dollars to defend Ukraine’s border.
Tony voted for Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates and to fund a $400 million federal vaccine tracking database that would enable the government to deny employment and benefits to individuals who refused experimental vaccines.
He voted to keep our soldiers in Syria where they are dying for no national interest. He voted to authorize warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. He voted for taxpayer-funded abortions and to allow government persecution of religious organizations that support traditional marriage.
He voted with Democrats for the January 6th Commission to prosecute and imprison President Trump and allowed himself to be a prop in Nikki Haley’s campaign ads.
And when it was time to hold the leadership of local law enforcement accountable for the tragedy in Uvalde, he instead blamed law-abiding citizens and supported Joe Biden’s gun control bill that funds unconstitutional Red Flag laws and takes 2nd Amendment rights away from veterans.
These are all the reasons that a clear majority of Republicans in the district voted against him yesterday, but his response is to call these voters crazy and say he needs to “drown” them.
Last night, he found out we’re a little more buoyant than he thought.
Last night, the people of Texas’ 23rd Congressional District sent a message: they’re done with Tony Gonzales and his betrayal of our shared conservative values.
I like Brandon, but this is a stretch considering that Gonzales got ~45 percent of the vote in the primary. Brandon needs to about double his portion of the vote to win the runoff, whereas Gonzales only needs to increase his portion by about 10 percent. His best hope is that all the people that didn't vote for Gonzales decide to turn out and vote for him, and that a bunch of the people that did vote for Gonzales don't turn out for the runoff.
I hope he wins, because I really do think he's what the country needs if we're going to (peacefully) turn this ship around, but I don't like his odds today as much as I did before election day.
It's not great odds, no denying that, but I feel he did better than I would have expected. As far as I'm aware, Brandon hasn't been endorsed by Trump, nor has he been funded by any internal MAGA movement yet, so I think the showing is pretty strong for that kind of a candidate.
He needs a proper Trump endorsement to get over the hump.
I'll admit that I don't know much about how votes tend to go in runoffs, but while I'd agree that ~55% of the primary voters voted for "Not Gonzales", I don't see how that means Herrera picks up the ~30 percentage points worth of those voters who didn't vote for him, especially given the particulars here. Gonzales is (or perhaps was) an establishment Republican politician, whose policies probably put him generally Auth-Center on a political compass. Herrera is a gunmaker and youtuber whose stated political beliefs would probably put him somewhere between Lib-Center and Lib-Right on a political compass. Herrera is also young, foul mouthed, and irreverent, which aren't things that I see the typical Republican primary voter supporting.
Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe I'm a bit blackpilled on "conservatism", but I feel like it's more likely that the things I brought up cost Brandon 20 percent of the "undecided" voters in the runoff (most likely by simply not showing up) than that the "Not Gonzales" voters unify behind him as a bloc.
Gonzales is the incumbent. The incumbent generally gets the votes from people in their party by default.
I'm well aware of this. For example, Governor Greg Abbot got ~70% of the vote in his last primary despite his wildly unpopular handling of covid, a big freeze, and several other issues (like participating in a witch hunt against AG Paxton, probably the most popular statewide elected official in Texas, and endorsing his opponent in the primary.)
If they vote, they will be voting for Herrera.
I think that "If" is a lot bigger than you're apparently making it out to be. I don't think the "Not Gonzales" voters are likely to flip to Gonzales, but that Herrera might be more unpalatable to the runoff voters than Gonzales. I don't know if you've ever watched any of Herrera's "edgier" content, but I expect Gonzales to be featuring lots of that stuff in some particularly vicious attack ads over the coming months.
I guarantee Gonzales is shitting his pants right now, because he knows all of this too.
I hope he is, but I don't see how the runoff is anything but an uphill battle for Herrera.
I was hoping this was a real quote. Brandon likes his memes (he imitated Henry Cavill "cocking" his arms from Mission Impossible when he did his youtube boxing match) enough that I could see him doing this (at least as part of a larger quote.)
I really hope this got him enough attention to make the 'oh I'll vote for the usual candidate' types to actually LOOK at who they are voting for as then they would easily switch to Brandon.
This section of voters are the biggest detriment to encouraging accountability and causes extreme nepotism.
Honestly, a lot of these elections are carried by personality and recognition, so I think (being a YouTuber) he had a lot of help. Now he just needs the funding, logistics, and endorsement.
If he ever wins anything, watch YouTube ban him. his videos are already ridiculously self-censored. YT is about the worst place to upload video.
If we ever broke the monopoly on video. If we ever got access to the content of YT, which Google didn't create. We could make a distributed recommendation engine or let people simply subscribe to creators without any recommendations at all.
I agree that these people need to upload to Rumble & Locals, however: consider that most of the Republicans are not censored off of YouTube, including Trump, Trump Jr., Ted Cruz, JD Vance, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, etc.
He'll probably stay on, just be fully demonetized.
This seems like a very nice gain for the populist right. Especially since I don't think MAGA has been particularly involved with Brandon's campaign. Gonzalez seems to have properly pissed off even establishment Republicans in Texas, and Herrera seems like he might be able to be endorsed by other primary candidates.
Considering that Texas 23 is also overrun with illegals (and a primary avenue of election fraud by Dems to create a blue Texas), this could be a big win. Especially to put a populist in the House (which is going to be a hard fight this year).
Herrera is going to have a lot of friends in the 2A community, as well as friends with the gun industry and the GOA. What he needs is a Trump endorsement to settle the matter and push Gonzalez out.
Trump endorsed Gonzalez in 2020, only for Gonzalez to vote for impeaching Trump on January 6th. Trump would eventually endorse Gonzalez's opponent, but to no avail. I know resources are thin, but this could be an easy win for Trump, securing an ally in the House, and putting a staunch 2A supporter in a position of prominence.
Let's Go Brandon's Comment:
Last night, the people of Texas’ 23rd Congressional District sent a message: they’re done with Tony Gonzales and his betrayal of our shared conservative values.
Tony sabotaged fellow Republicans’ border reform bill and called it “anti-American” and “not Christian.” When Tony’s own district was being overrun with illegals, every other Republican member of Congress backed Texas Governor Abbott in his fight to secure the border except Tony. Instead, Tony voted to send $40 billion taxpayer dollars to defend Ukraine’s border.
Tony voted for Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates and to fund a $400 million federal vaccine tracking database that would enable the government to deny employment and benefits to individuals who refused experimental vaccines.
He voted to keep our soldiers in Syria where they are dying for no national interest. He voted to authorize warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. He voted for taxpayer-funded abortions and to allow government persecution of religious organizations that support traditional marriage.
He voted with Democrats for the January 6th Commission to prosecute and imprison President Trump and allowed himself to be a prop in Nikki Haley’s campaign ads.
And when it was time to hold the leadership of local law enforcement accountable for the tragedy in Uvalde, he instead blamed law-abiding citizens and supported Joe Biden’s gun control bill that funds unconstitutional Red Flag laws and takes 2nd Amendment rights away from veterans.
These are all the reasons that a clear majority of Republicans in the district voted against him yesterday, but his response is to call these voters crazy and say he needs to “drown” them.
Last night, he found out we’re a little more buoyant than he thought.
I like Brandon, but this is a stretch considering that Gonzales got ~45 percent of the vote in the primary. Brandon needs to about double his portion of the vote to win the runoff, whereas Gonzales only needs to increase his portion by about 10 percent. His best hope is that all the people that didn't vote for Gonzales decide to turn out and vote for him, and that a bunch of the people that did vote for Gonzales don't turn out for the runoff.
I hope he wins, because I really do think he's what the country needs if we're going to (peacefully) turn this ship around, but I don't like his odds today as much as I did before election day.
It's not great odds, no denying that, but I feel he did better than I would have expected. As far as I'm aware, Brandon hasn't been endorsed by Trump, nor has he been funded by any internal MAGA movement yet, so I think the showing is pretty strong for that kind of a candidate.
He needs a proper Trump endorsement to get over the hump.
I'll admit that I don't know much about how votes tend to go in runoffs, but while I'd agree that ~55% of the primary voters voted for "Not Gonzales", I don't see how that means Herrera picks up the ~30 percentage points worth of those voters who didn't vote for him, especially given the particulars here. Gonzales is (or perhaps was) an establishment Republican politician, whose policies probably put him generally Auth-Center on a political compass. Herrera is a gunmaker and youtuber whose stated political beliefs would probably put him somewhere between Lib-Center and Lib-Right on a political compass. Herrera is also young, foul mouthed, and irreverent, which aren't things that I see the typical Republican primary voter supporting.
Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe I'm a bit blackpilled on "conservatism", but I feel like it's more likely that the things I brought up cost Brandon 20 percent of the "undecided" voters in the runoff (most likely by simply not showing up) than that the "Not Gonzales" voters unify behind him as a bloc.
Brandon got more votes than I would have expected. Therefore, I won't count him out having got this far.
I'm well aware of this. For example, Governor Greg Abbot got ~70% of the vote in his last primary despite his wildly unpopular handling of covid, a big freeze, and several other issues (like participating in a witch hunt against AG Paxton, probably the most popular statewide elected official in Texas, and endorsing his opponent in the primary.)
I think that "If" is a lot bigger than you're apparently making it out to be. I don't think the "Not Gonzales" voters are likely to flip to Gonzales, but that Herrera might be more unpalatable to the runoff voters than Gonzales. I don't know if you've ever watched any of Herrera's "edgier" content, but I expect Gonzales to be featuring lots of that stuff in some particularly vicious attack ads over the coming months.
I hope he is, but I don't see how the runoff is anything but an uphill battle for Herrera.
I was hoping this was a real quote. Brandon likes his memes (he imitated Henry Cavill "cocking" his arms from Mission Impossible when he did his youtube boxing match) enough that I could see him doing this (at least as part of a larger quote.)
The fake interview quote would fit him perfectly.
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"Brown" Pee-wee Herman clone vs bearded gun man. Not much of a choice really.
I really hope this got him enough attention to make the 'oh I'll vote for the usual candidate' types to actually LOOK at who they are voting for as then they would easily switch to Brandon.
This section of voters are the biggest detriment to encouraging accountability and causes extreme nepotism.
Honestly, a lot of these elections are carried by personality and recognition, so I think (being a YouTuber) he had a lot of help. Now he just needs the funding, logistics, and endorsement.
If he ever wins anything, watch YouTube ban him. his videos are already ridiculously self-censored. YT is about the worst place to upload video.
If we ever broke the monopoly on video. If we ever got access to the content of YT, which Google didn't create. We could make a distributed recommendation engine or let people simply subscribe to creators without any recommendations at all.
I agree that these people need to upload to Rumble & Locals, however: consider that most of the Republicans are not censored off of YouTube, including Trump, Trump Jr., Ted Cruz, JD Vance, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, etc.
He'll probably stay on, just be fully demonetized.
If the RNC wasn't run by establishment ghouls, it would be backing Herrera in a big way to oust that Democrat Gonzales.
Correct, which is why he needs a Trump or Paxton endorsement.
I hope that Sexy Youtube Motherlover wins. It would be another great poke in the eye of dirtbags like Tony.
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