Courtesy Picture / Kristian Carranza (left) and Fb / Texas Rep. John Lujan (proper)
Democrat challenger Kristian Carranza (left) out fundraised Republican incumbent John Lujan (proper) four-to-one throughout the latest fundraising report filed final month.
The carefully watched race for Texas Home District 118 – which incorporates components of San Antonio’s South and East Sides – is getting even hotter.
Democrat challenger Kristian Carranza has launched a brand new assault advert focusing on Republican incumbent Texas Rep. John Lujan’s current feedback about sexual assault and abortion.
For these needing a refresher, Lujan grabbed headlines final week when he instructed Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies throughout a candidate discussion board that if he had a daughter who’d been sexually assaulted, he would drive her to have the kid.
“As a Christian man, I am very pro-life,” Lujan stated through the TPR look. “However man, I struggled with the rape and incest as a result of, , I feel if it was my daughter – I haven’t got any daughters — but when I had a daughter, and that will have been, , if it will have been a rape, I feel we, as a personally, I might say, ‘No, we’ll have the child.”
Carranza’s new 15-second commercial launched Wednesday doubles down on her prior criticisms of Lujan’s remarks.
“How excessive is Rep. John Lujan on Abortion?” the advert asks voters, adopted by an edited — albeit in context — clip of Lujan making his feedback about his hypothetical daughter through the candidate discussion board.
“John Lujan. Too Excessive for Texas,” the advert concludes.
“It is a hypothetical instance, however ladies throughout Texas know there’s nothing hypothetical about being pressured to hold your rapist’s child,” Carranza stated in a Wednesday assertion.
Analysts take into account the HD 118 race to be among the many state’s best this election cycle. Regardless of being represented by a Republican, President Joe Biden carried the district in 2020, and Beto O’Rourke additionally dominated the district through the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election.
What’s extra, Carranza out-fundraised Lujan four-to-one, in line with fundraising studies the candidates filed final month.
Bexar County voters will resolve between Carranza and Lujan on Nov. 5. The final day to register to vote is Oct. 7.
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