Brandon Herrera is running for political office.
Posted by Unsubscribe Podcast, Checked
- Sources
- 3 support1 context
- Said
- 1 time·
- Confidence
- 40%
Unsubscribe PodcastSep 13, 2026
The sources show Brandon Herrera was the Republican nominee for Texas's 23rd Congressional District in September 2026, so he was running for Congress on the claim's date.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
What was said
… Rich is a victim of this, and people just slander you sideways, and then you're always defending yourself from behind. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, you know a little about that. Would you like to tell us? Been told a time or two. That's one thing. I made this joke before I ran for office the first time. I said, "I cannot wait to find all find out all these cool and new, interesting facts about myself that I didn't know." And I'll be damned, and it is wild watching from, ah, even from my side. It's like, "Oh, I know my friends. …
Unsubscribe Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Multiple sources published around the claim date describe Herrera as the Republican nominee for Texas's 23rd Congressional District, a federal House seat.[2][3][4]
Context. The claimant's passage refers only to "I" and never names Brandon Herrera, so attributing the candidacy to Herrera is an addition the post did not make.
Context. Sources published after the claim date (October 2026) continue to describe Herrera as the nominee in the upcoming election, so the situation did not change between the claim date and the check date.[1][4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Judge bars federal government from trying to separate ballotsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Gun Influencer Brandon Herrera Could Represent Uvalde In ...huffpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3What Texas Republican Brandon Herrera said about women, Nazi ...usatoday.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4ELECTION RESULTS: Texas' 23rd Congressional District ...ksat.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
Where this claim was made
Said in 1 published post
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