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The battle between Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and the GOPs right flank is heating up, with hard-line House conservatives throwing their support behind his primary opponent after the moderate Republican called two of them scumbags on national television.
Gonzales kicked the hornets nest over the weekend when, during an interview on CNN, he went after Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Bob Good (R-Va.) its my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags launching personal attacks on the conservative duo.
Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with them at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi, Gonzales said on CNNs State of the Union on Sunday. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now theyre walking around with white hoods in the daytime.
Gaetz, who has denied the allegation, and Good joined by other hard-liners shot back at Gonzales, criticizing his voting record, slamming him as a Republican in name only and endorsing his primary opponent, Brandon Herrera, a social media influencer and self-proclaimed Second Amendment activist who has worked to plant himself to the right of Gonzales.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservatives-aim-fire-texas-republican-100000196.html