Brandon Herrera Holds Six-Point Lead over Katy Padilla Stout in Texas 23rd District Poll

A recent Remington Research Group poll of 572 likely general-election voters conducted from July 25 to 28 indicates that Republican Brandon Herrera leads Democrat Katy Padilla Stout by six percentage points in Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, with Herrera at 47 percent. Ten percent of respondents remain undecided and two percent would vote for someone else. Herrera, a small-business owner and Second Amendment activist, entered the race after former Rep. Tony Gonzales stepped aside amid an affair scandal that led to his resignation.

Herrera’s campaign focuses on tightening border security, rejecting new taxes, defending gun rights, opposing government funding of abortion, promoting school choice, and ending overseas conflicts. In contrast, Stout’s platform includes rejecting a border wall in the Big Bend area, supporting certain gun-control measures, allowing abortion, rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, and expanding universal pre-K education. An August 18 update reported Herrera’s campaign raised over $600,000 in the first 45 days of the third quarter, surpassing Stout’s total fundraising to date.