{"id":8258,"date":"2024-05-29T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/incumbent-gonzales-narrowly-defeats-ak-guy-in-texas-district-23-republican-runoff\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:10:04","slug":"incumbent-gonzales-narrowly-defeats-ak-guy-in-texas-district-23-republican-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/incumbent-gonzales-narrowly-defeats-ak-guy-in-texas-district-23-republican-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent Gonzales narrowly defeats &#8216;AK Guy&#8217; in Texas District 23 Republican runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         Incumbent U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales won victory by fewer than 500 votes over social media influencer Brandon &#8220;AK Guy&#8221; Herrera in Tuesday&#8217;s GOP runoff to represent Texas\u2019 23rd Congressional District. Gonzales, a two-term congressman whose district includes part of San Antonio, finished the night with 50.7% of the vote compared to Herrera\u2019s 49.3% in a nail biter the Associated Press didn\u2019t call until after midnight. Herrera, a far-right political novice who reviews guns on YouTube, performed better than expected during the March 5 Republican primary, garnering nearly a quarter of the vote and sending the race into a runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales won victory by fewer than 500 votes over social media influencer Brandon &#8220;AK Guy&#8221; Herrera in Tuesday&#8217;s GOP runoff to represent Texas\u2019 23rd Congressional District. Gonzales, a two-term congressman whose district includes part of San Antonio, finished the night with 50.7% of the vote compared to Herrera\u2019s 49.3% in a [&hellip;]<\/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\/8258"}],"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=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}