says<\/a>\u00a0parents in Uvalde, where a deadly school shooting occurred and is in the district, are \u201cdisgusted\u201d that Herrera could be the nominee.<\/p>\nBut to run a competitive campaign, Stout will need to increase her funding. Latest reporting shows her\u00a0campaign has\u00a0$8,000 on hand, but she says she got around $50,000 in donations over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to keep this as grassroots the way we started it all the way through to the end as\u00a0much as possible,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think people are going to be really surprised that you can\u2019t really buy campaigns like we\u2019ve been used to in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stout will also meet with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) this week, the funding arm for the party. A national Democratic strategist working on House races said that \u201cThe DCCC is monitoring the race as the Gonzales fall out continues to shake Republicans.\u201d But the strategist wouldn\u2019t confirm if the race would be added to their\u00a0list of districts in play.<\/p>\n
At least one Republican analyst thinks their party should be worried about the outcome in the district that is 70% Hispanic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a softening among Hispanic voters toward the president,\u201d said Republican strategist Brendan Steinhauser. \u201cHe\u2019s going to have to sort of convince them that he\u2019s on their side, he\u2019s fighting for them, and that he actually holds values that are reflective\u00a0of the district.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herrera and a PAC associated with him raised more than $2 million between January and February this year.<\/p>\n
Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesperson Zach Kraft attests that \u201cAnyone saying this race is remotely competitive is an unserious clown.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since claiming the nomination, Herrera has received pushback over multiple videos where he\u00a0pretended to be\u00a0a Nazi. Herrera has said publicly that he was joking, and that he was making these videos to get laughs and to highlight the guns.<\/p>\n
One Republican analyst writes Herrera\u2019s online persona off as a joke and is confident Herrera will be successful in November in a district that favored Trump by 15 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because you make a comment about something doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re antisemitic,\u201d said Wanye Hamilton of Protect Red TX.<\/p>\n
But antisemitism has become a flash point on the right, which is a cause for concern, according to Steinhauser.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to have a zero-tolerance policy for antisemitism. And when a Republican candidate does anything that is giving an indication that either hold those views or they tolerate those views, then we need to speak out. So hopefully he\u2019ll have more to say on that and we\u2019ll have a better defense of just saying that he was joking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The National Republican Congressional Committee maintains that \u201cTexas\u2019 23rd District is deep red, and Democrats know it.\u201d Adding that \u201cvoters will once again elect a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The default Republican nominee for the 23rd Congressional District, Brandon Herrera, gained notoriety on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6329,1657,1658,132,6328,1570,102,6288,6363,223,287,82,84,83,27,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-199576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-app-capital-tonight","9":"tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-austin","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-ctv","14":"tag-dallas","15":"tag-decision-2026","16":"tag-erin-davis","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","21":"tag-san-antonio-news","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}