“To have the speaker be in San Antonio campaigning for Tony … I’m just beside myself that that’s where things are,” Roy told San Antonio radio station KTSA.
“I’m being attacked. Conservatives are being attacked. Bob Good, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, is being attacked by Tony,” Roy said.
“He said that he’s a Klansman. Yeah, I cannot tolerate what’s happening to the people that I think are standing up for this country.”
Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was referencing Gonzales’ vicious live television rant from Sunday.
“I serve with some real scumbags,” Gonzales vented during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties,” Gonzales went on, reviving unproven allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
“Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi,” the Texas Republican further alleged. “These people used to walk around with white hoods at night, now they are walking around with white hoods in the daytime.”
Johnson’s appearance at the San Antonio fundraiser was long-planned and coincides with the National Republican Congressional Committee’s spring dinner in Dallas Tuesday night, a person familiar told The Post.
The fundraiser reportedly raked in nearly $300,000 in donations, according to Punchbowl.
“I have no problem with [Johnson] campaigning alongside Turncoat [Gonzales],” Gaetz wrote on X. “But why is this gathering just for donors willing to fork over the $300k Tony bragged about?”
“Everyone should see them campaigning together,” the Florida Republican added. “The great Johnson/Gonzales duo for more Ukraine funding surely wants to explain to Texans how much debt their grandkids should assume to repatriate Crimea.”
Gonzales will square off against digital content creator Brandon Herrera, known as “The AK Guy” on YouTube, in the May 28 Texas GOP primary.
“There could not be a clearer example of a David vs Goliath fight,” Herrera wrote on X.
Gonzales will square off against digital content creator Brandon Herrera, known as “The AK Guy” on YouTube, in the May 28 Texas GOP primary.
“While Tony and the establishment are raising millions of dollars through big donors, PACs and private parties, we’re out talking directly to the people,” he added. “It’s the establishment against grassroots, plain and simple.”