Brandon Gill, the son-in-law of right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza, has gained the GOP nomination for a US Home seat in Texas’ twenty sixth District. A former funding banker, Gill arrange a right-wing web site known as the DC Enquirer in 2022 to advertise 2000 Mules, his father-in-law’s disproven conspiracy movie concerning the 2020 election.
Gill simply claimed victory over 10 different candidates within the race to interchange Consultant Michael Burgess, who’s retiring after 21 years in Congress. Gill gained nearly 60 p.c of the vote within the comfortably purple district, in keeping with AP, and he’s the overwhelming favourite to win when he faces Democrat Ernest Lineberger III in November.
Gill was unknown within the political world till 2022, when he arrange the DC Enquirer and instantly original it right into a staunchly professional former president Donald Trump outlet that boosted a myriad of election conspiracies.
“2000 Mules is altering minds, individuals are waking up and realizing that the 2020 election was neither free nor honest,” Gill wrote on Twitter in Might 2022, a month after he attended the premiere of the movie at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Gill’s web site was one of many principal promoters of 2000 Mules, a so-called documentary created by D’Souza that made wild allegations about widespread voter fraud within the 2020 election. The movie was shortly debunked by a number of fact-checking organizations. In a courtroom listening to final month, the group whose claims the movie was based mostly on instructed a decide that they had no proof to again up their claims.
In latest weeks, hundreds of thousands of {dollars} had been spent on assault adverts by two GOP tremendous PACs to oppose far-right Republican Home candidates, together with Gill. However that was no match for the endorsements from a who’s who of the Republican Social gathering’s MAGA faction, together with Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Senator Ted Cruz, Consultant Matt Gaetz, Senator Mike Lee, and even the McCloskeys—the far-right couple who turned prompt Republican celebrities in 2020 after they pointed weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters strolling previous their St. Louis residence.
And Gill nonetheless seems to be centered on boosting false claims of election fraud in 2020, posting on X in November: “No we aren’t going to ‘transfer on’ from a stolen election. Safe our elections!”
