Michael Karlis
Brandon “AK Man” Herrera and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz clasp palms at a San Antonio rally on Thursday.
Brandon Herrera, the gun-loving South Texas vlogger operating to unseat incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, made an Alamo Metropolis marketing campaign cease Thursday with assist from Florida’s Matt Gaetz, a controversial congressman fashionable with the far-right fringe.
Throughout speeches at GOP-themed watering gap the Offended Elephant, the pair lashed out at acquainted targets, immigrants and President Joe Biden amongst them. Throughout his remarks, Herrera — often called the “AK Man” for his unflinching help of gun rights — additionally focused chubby ladies.
“You recognize, I noticed a statistic that final yr extra fentanyl got here throughout the Southern border by weight than could be required to kill your entire inhabitants of the planet — or [the weight of] about 26 Austin feminists,” Herrera mentioned, garnering laughs and cheers from the MAGA hat-wearing crowd of about 100.
Herrera is locked in a major runoff to characterize Texas twenty third District. His opponent, Gonzales, is a GOP average from San Antonio who’s drawn scorn from members of his personal occasion for supporting homosexual marriage and restricted gun management.
Thursday’s dig at ladies is simply the newest inflammatory assertion from Herrera, a YouTube persona who’s make outrageous remarks a part of his political model. Throughout his marketing campaign, Herrera has poked enjoyable at veteran suicides, mocked former President Donald Trump’s 17-year-old son Barron as trying like a “lengthy ventriloquist-like dummy” and expressed doubts Trump can win in November.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a fellow Republican hardliner and former AM radio talk-show host, endorsed Gonzales on Monday, a transfer which will sign his displeasure with Herrera’s anti-Trump sentiments.
Even so, Gaetz’s look with Herrera appeared to spice up enthusiasm for these attending the Offended Elephant rally.
Throughout his remarks, the pompadoured Florida congressman mentioned his solely downside with the mullet-sporting Herrera is that if he wins, it might imply Gaetz would now not “have the very best hair in Congress.”
Gaetz has been a lightning rod for controversy throughout his time on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Justice Division spent months investigating Gaetz on allegations he was concerned within the intercourse trafficking of a 17-year-old woman. He was cleared of any wrongdoing in February of final yr.
Gates steered away from the subject of intercourse trafficking throughout his Offended Elephant speech though it has been a preferred speaking level amongst far-right conservatives this election cycle.
Voters within the twenty third District — which spans from San Antonio’s far West Facet all the best way to El Paso — will determine between Herrera and Gonzales on Could 28.
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