This year is his most robust operation since he first ran for Congress in 2016, he said.
With over $1.4 million in cash on hand, he’s on his way to surpassing his 2016 spending of $2.3 million.
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His campaign has spent $2.2 million as of the end of June on a robust ground game - nearly twice the expenses of his past two campaigns combined - and that’s before he released his first TV ad in late September. Gonzalez’s aggressive spending in the race shows that he’s not taking anything for granted. Emboldened by that win, Republicans are relentlessly going after Gonzalez’s verbal gaffes and portraying him as an out-of-touch creature of Washington. Mayra Flores, who won her special election and flipped the district red in June after a tsunami of support from national Republicans hopeful to make South Texas their new stomping grounds. In a twist, Gonzalez, a three-term congressman, is not the incumbent where he’s running, since he opted to run in a new district after redistricting. Despite his advantages, Gonzalez is running a hard-fought campaign that has been beset by obstacles - some of his own making. “The world could collapse and he’s still going to win.”īut Vela’s confidence about the race isn’t universal. Filemon Vela, the last Democrat to represent the district. “There’s no way Vicente can lose this race,” said former U.S. And he’s well known in the community where he worked for decades before taking office. He has a pocketbook that other candidates can only dream of. He’s running in a comfortably Democratic district. Vicente Gonzalez should be sitting pretty. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, by calling him a ‘Mexican’ simply because he ruled against you,” Vela wrote, warning Trump not to “dismiss me as just another ‘Mexican." Why Vicente Gonzalez may not be safe in his solidly Democratic district" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. “You have now descended to a new low in your racist attack of an American jurist, U.S. The Indiana-born Curiel has Mexican heritage, but Trump has said Curiel cannot be impartial because he is a “Mexican” and Trump wants to build a wall with along that country’s border. Vela, who represents a border region of Texas, was responding to the latest controversy by Trump related to the Hispanic community – pillorying Trump for his criticism of Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge in Southern California overseeing the Trump University case. The letter was first reported by the Texas Tribune. “I would like to end this letter in a more diplomatic fashion, but I think that you, of all people, understand why I cannot.” Trump, you’re a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass,” wrote the second-term congressman. The Texas Democrat sent an open letter to the presumptive Republican nominee telling him just where to put the border wall he’s been calling for since the start of his campaign. Filemon Vela felt about Donald Trump before, it is now.
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