"Brandon Herrera is raising eyebrows over a 2022 video where the Texas Congressional candidate promotes a Nazi rifle,
a weapon he calls Hitler's 'street sweeper' and the 'the original ghetto blaster.'
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"Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) campaigned with a primary challenger to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Thursday, disregarding calls from party leadership for GOP unity.
Gaetz was in Texas for an event with Brandon Herrera, a pro-gun social media influencer who forced Gonzales into a primary runoff earlier this month."
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"Herrera, 28, can be seen in a 2022 video shooting the MP-40 submachine gun choreographed to the song 'Erika,' used by the Nazi as a marching tune.
"Herrera, who's vying to be represent a congressional district that includes Uvalde,
site of the a horrific 2022 school shooting that
claimed the lives of 19 kids and two teachers
at Robb Elementary School, acknowledges the use of the song is controversial."
"The online shock jock used 'Erika' in other video as background music and has also used 'SS marschiert in Feindesland' (SS marches in enemy territory) and 'Panzerlied' (Tank Song.)"
"Herrera has taken up other extreme positions, such as being a member of
Sons of Confederate Veterans,
an organization that is committed to vindicating 'the cause for which we fought,' according to their website.
He had been embraced by other another Republican extremist,
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz
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Trump to nominate Florida's Matt Gaetz to be attorney general
"If confirmed by the Senate, Gaetz, 42, would take the helm of a department that as recently as last year was investigating him for possible sex trafficking offenses. Ultimately, prosecutors declined to bring charges against him after a long-running probe"
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/g-s1-34072/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-doj-oversight
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"Herrera had been embraced by other another Republican extremist,
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
"In the YouTube video of the Lincoln assassination he recreated,
Congressional candidate Brandon Herrera smashed open a fake skull
that was supposed to represents Lincoln's head and pulled out the brain, squeezing fake blood out of it"
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