On March 5, after acknowledging an affair, Tony Gonzales dropped out of his runoff against Brandon Herrera, who will now be the Republican Party’s nominee in November. With an especially grim personal scandal haunting Tony Gonzales going into the Republican primary for the Twenty-Third Congressional District, it seemed possible that gun influencer and edgelord Brandon Herrera might win outright. Not so. At the time the race was called, Gonzales was leading by a single vote out of the nearly 50,000 total counted. The race will head to a runoff, which is likely to be brutal.This primary season has seen an unusual amount of meaningful top-line fighting in statewide races, but the most sordid and unsettling human drama of the 2026 Texas primaries came in the…The post After a Tragic Scandal, Tony Gonzales Is Heading to a Runoff Against the “AK Guy” appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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