GOP candidate for the San Antonio House apologizes for" crude and juvenile" messages on social media.

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A Democrat running for the Texas House in a tent battle area is reckoning with the latest uncovering of his decade-old social media posts, including ones that use racist slurs and prejudiced tropes, which he says he presently views as crude and immature.

The publication of the liberal media site Current Revolt, who shared nine social media posts from 2013 in which Borrego mentioned the use of cocaine, along with many others that used rude terms, made the public know earlier this week about the publication’s old tweets by Jorge Borrego, the GOP nominee for an ultra-competitive seat in San Antonio.

In a previous article, Borrego called the man a variation of the N-word, ending with,” @MikeeKillsz is gay as hell …you see i actually said it.”

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In a response that has gained nearly 1 million views on X, the applicant immediately dismissed concerns about the comments, noting he was a student at the time.

Borrego responded, explaining that MikeeKillsz is his niece by saying,” I was 16 lol.” He eked out a laughing-crying icon to end that response.

Since then, The Texas Tribune has viewed more ancient comments that were not previously reported, in which Borrego alluded to selling methamphetamine, attributed a false estimate to Hitler and made disparaging remarks about Asians and religion. Borrego used slurs for gay people in numerous posts.

In his March 2013 essay, he wrote,” Still can’t tell the difference just like Asians with their eyes shut.”

In a statement to the Tribune on Tuesday night after being shown the new batch of past tweets, Borrego apologized for the comments and said he has matured since he made the posts.

Borrego claimed that the posts were” cruel and immature jokes I made when I was a child.” They were neither admissions nor descriptions of the actions I had taken. I regret the language I used then and apologize to anyone it hurt. These previous posts do not in any way reflect my current feelings or thoughts.

” Dark humor to deal with trauma”

Borrego, a 30-year-old realtor and former education policy analyst, is running against Democratic political strategist Kristian Carranza in south San Antonio’s House District 118. Republicans are eager to keep the seat in the hands of the GOP after state representative John Lujan, R-San Antonio, opted against running for Congress. Borrego has attracted government support. Greg Abbott and the GOP nominee for attorney general, state Sen. Mayes Middleton, along with a host of other lawmakers and influential groups such as Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC.

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Borrego entered politics in 2021, when he worked as legislative director for state Rep. J. M. Lozano, R-Kingsville. He worked for the Texas Public Policy Foundation for a year before becoming the K-12 education policy director. He remained active until he launched his House campaign in the fall of 2025 for the renowned Austin-based conservative think tank.

A graduate of Texas A&M University’s public policy school, where he received a master’s degree in public administration, Borrego also serves part-time as the treasurer of the Down Syndrome Association of Brazos Valley.

Borrego claims that he grew up” under difficult circumstances” before getting involved in politics and the public service. He claimed in a candidate questionnaire that his father was incarcerated and that he was raised by a teenage mother. He became the first in his family to graduate college when he earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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In a statement to the Tribune, Borrego said,” I have always been open about growing up in an environment where drug and alcohol abuse were prevalent, and I occasionally used dark humor to cope with trauma I did not yet know how to process,” Borrego said. The phrase” that context” explains jokes, but it doesn’t justify them. I have grown and matured, and those posts do not reflect the husband, father, or public servant I am today”.

He told the Tribune that his campaign’s main priorities are preventing children from getting sick and preventing them from getting better, especially those who are raising their children in poverty.

More than 50 of Borrego’s posts, according to the Tribune’s review, mention cocaine, meth, and a number of other drugs. His posts reference “my” drug dealer and contain allusions to dealing drugs himself.

More than a dozen people mention crude topics like masturbation and other sexual issues, as well as his ex-wife’s lewd remarks. Other posts include spooky answers to anonymous questions from the now-defunct Q&A platform Ask, as well as nighttime musings and jokes. fm.

In his November 2013 essay,” Religion is a good thing if you take it in moderation,”

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Most of the posts still appeared on X at the time of publication.

A critical battleground seat

Borrego is already a part of Austin political circles despite his relatively recent political entry. He pushed for the GOP’s Teacher Bill of Rights and private school vouchers, Abbott’s long-awaited accomplishment last year, in the last legislative session.

Beyond the endorsements he’s picked up, Borrego has also already been vetted by voters.

In a three-way primary in March, he won the GOP nomination with 53 % of the vote. In a race that turned into a proxy war in the GOP’s internal conflict over civil justice, he defeated trial lawyer-backed Desi Martinez and Army veteran Joe Shellhart with the help of Abbott and Texans for Lawsuit Reform’s political arm. Together, TLR spent at least$ 417, 000 on his behalf, while the Abbott campaign spent close to$ 21, 000.

The Tribune’s requests for comment were ignored by the Abbott campaign and TLR PAC.

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Borrego will face Carranza in November, who was only 3.5 percentage points away from winning the 2024 battleground district. That margin made it Republicans ‘ narrowest hold in the Texas Legislature that cycle.

Democrats are once more vying for HD 118, a predominantly Hispanic district that has been divided between Republican and Democratic hands over the past ten years. Democrats hope to win over HD 118 in districts where Texas and the country are shifting to the left, especially among Hispanic voters this cycle.

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, will hold a fundraiser in San Antonio on Thursday benefiting Borrego and Reps. Marc LaHood and Mark Dorazio, two local incumbents in relatively tight races. After winning his seat by only 5 points in 2024, LaHood is now on Democrats ‘ list of candidates seeking a second term. By 16 points, Dorazio was reelected.

” When candidates forget to audit”

In a time when a generation of internet users are starting to run for office, vetteing and polishing social media posts has become a common practice for serious candidates.

In a post from Borrego that was shared by Current Revolt’s publisher Tony Ortiz, Borrego said,” Always a good laugh when candidates forget to audit their social media before running for office.”

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Candidates on both sides of the aisle have faced scrutiny over their social media posts past and present.

The 23rd Congressional District’s neighboring Second Amendment candidate and activist Brandon Herrera has a social media following that features jokes about the Holocaust, veteran suicide, and motherhood. As a candidate for the political party, he has adopted the edgelord persona cultivated in his YouTube videos, while insisting that some of his earlier comments have been taken out of context.

In the Democratic primary for the 35th Congressional District, which overlaps with House District 118, sex therapist and housing advocate Maureen Galindo was condemned nationally by members of her party for a series of antisemitic comments she made on Instagram while campaigning for the office.

Carranza, 36, claimed in a statement to the Tribune that she was disgusted by Borrego’s statements and his initial “lol” response and that he” should be in rehab, not in public office.”

The Democrat stated,” It is obvious that this man is unfit and unable to serve in a position of trust.”

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