Rep. Tony Gonzales (R‑TX) has survived his high-profile primary election, setting the stage for him to be reelected to a third term in his Texas House seat while defeating a far-right challenger who was backed by many of the incumbent’s GOP colleagues in the lower chamber.
Gonzales defeated challenger Brandon Herrera after garnering 50.7% of the vote with 95% of the ballots counted. The Associated Press called the race in the incumbent’s favor early Wednesday morning.
Gonzales’s victory brings to an end a monthslong contentious primary challenge that split the GOP as some of the Texas Republicans’s peers in the House endorsed his opponent to oust him from his seat. Because Texas’s 23rd Congressional District is considered solidly Republican, whoever won the primary was considered the favorite to win the seat in the Novem …