YouTube vlogger-turned-congressional candidate Brandon Herrera’s controversial remarks don’t appear to have paid fundraising dividends, according to first-quarter campaign finance data reported on Tuesday by the Texas Tribune. Herrera, known as the “AK Guy” because of his gun manufacturing business, raised $401,000 between Jan. 1 and March 31 \u2014 or less than half the $949,000 that his rival,\u00a0U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, raised during that same period, the Tribune reports. Gonzales and Herrera are locked in a runoff for the Republican nomination to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, which includes part of San Antonio along with a large swath of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u00a0Gonzales failed to garner 50% of the vote during the state’s GOP primaries in March, so the two will face off again May 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube vlogger-turned-congressional candidate Brandon Herrera’s controversial remarks don’t appear to have paid fundraising dividends, according to first-quarter campaign finance data reported on Tuesday by the Texas Tribune. Herrera, known as the “AK Guy” because of his gun manufacturing business, raised $401,000 between Jan. 1 and March 31 \u2014 or less than half the $949,000 that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}