YouTuber Brandon Herrera loses by 407 votes in GOP runoff, officially soon
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Per the latest unofficial, but soon-to-be-official election results (poll ended 13 hours ago at the time of this writing, with the Office of Texas Secretary of State’s Texas Elections Division reporting that all 110 counties and 2353 polling locations were “reporting”) for Texas’s U.S. Representative District 23, incumbent Representative Tony Gonzales has won the 2024 May 28th Republican Primary Runoff against his challenger, Brandon Herrera.
Herrera is a Second Amendment activist, an entrepreneur and a social media personality. His YouTube channel has 3.42 million subscribers, X account is being followed by 412.5K followers and Instagram profile has 451K followers, with his campaign’s Facebook page getting 3.6K “Likes” and 4.7K followers at the time of this writing. Per the as-yet unofficial election results, he received a total of 14,616 votes.
On the other hand, Representative Gonzales received a total of 15,023 votes.
Congressman Gonzales, who has been serving in Congress since 2021, is a Navy veteran with extensive experience in national security. His campaign emphasizes strong border security, economic growth and support for veterans. Representative Gonzales holds a Master’s in International Relations and served on Capitol Hill as a Department of Defense Legislative Fellow for Senator Marco Rubio.
Herrera, a political newcomer, centered his campaign on conservative values, focusing on Second Amendment rights and reducing government overreach. Known for his presence in the firearms community, Herrera aims to bring a fresh perspective to Washington, advocating for individual liberties and smaller government.
The race has garnered significant attention due to the district’s diverse demographics and the candidates’ contrasting backgrounds. While the results have yet to be declared official, Herrera appears to have some idea that he has been defeated: when CNN senior political commentator Adam Kinzinger replied to Herrera’s X post thanking his supporters, volunteers and donors, writing, “You lost,” Brandon Herrera responded, “If that’s true, you and your left leaning losers just spent $10 million to come within a couple hundred votes of a YouTuber.
Congrats [Saluting face].”
Congressman Gonzales’s photo, which was cropped a little to fit here and resized, is under public domain, while Herrera’s photo, which was cropped to fit here, is by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America and is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED. The joined/featured image is licensed under the same license.
