Page 5 - District 23 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Garcia: San Antonio veteran enters the Democratic race in U.S. Dist. 23 FacebookTwitterEmail August 1, 2019 was a big day for both Tony Gonzales and John Lira. That afternoon, Will Hurd announced that he would not seek a fourth term representing U.S. District 23. Hurd’s announcement meant political salvation for Gonzales. Only a day earlier, Gonzales, a Republican with 20 years of experience in the U.S. Navy, had declared his candidacy for U.S. District 35, a solid Democratic district represented by all-but-unbeatable Lloyd Doggett. Hurd’s bombshell gave Gonzales an opening, a chance to p...

Traditional republicans in that district, this is not a pro-union candidate. maybe a fifth of the district is union house holds. this isn't exactly the test you would think. david: kim, the spotlight this week in the democrat/republican fight has been on california and the sanctuary cities rule that they have there that has gone as far as you can go to the left with the oak lapd mayor not only not agreeing to help i.c.e. agents but going further and warning criminal aliens where and when the i.c.e. agents were coming to arrest them. this set up the president calling out that woman, we see ther...

>> west texas, district 23, traditionally big democrat turnout. the republican turnout was a record 5,000 more than the previous record. but the number one guy they wanted to have run came in third beaten by a guy who spent 24 grand. it's a weird year in texas. david: we're talking about an historically red state. let's talk about an historically blue state that went for trump that a lot of testimonies say we can get back into the blue corner like pennsylvania. what's going on there? >> well they've got a picture perfect candidate. if you sent out to central casting and said we want a can dade...

David: former marine. >> everybody sharing money. long time state representative. i think at the end of the day the district goes republican. but it will go so because president trump is putting his political reputation on the line by appearing for rick sar cone on saturday before the tuesday election. david: that's the form er formee we just saw a picture of. a very attractive candidate. let's talk about the senate as a whole. there's been a relook by some in the mainstream media, nate silver freks said that the talk about the democrats taking over the senate was overhoped, that y went too fa...

>> west texas, district 23, traditionally big democrat turnout. the republican turnout was a record 5,000 more than the previous record. but the number one guy they wanted to have run came in third beaten by a guy who spent 24 grand. it's a weird year in texas. david: we're talking about an historically red state. let's talk about an historically blue state that went for trump that a lot of testimonies say we can get back into the blue corner like pennsylvania. what's going on there? >> well they've got a picture perfect candidate. if you sent out to central casting and said we want a can dade...