Representative Ruben Gallego, the 2024 Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona, is facing increasing scrutiny over his Mexican father's criminal behavior, both past and present.
Gallego admitted last week that his father is a "Convicted drug dealer."According to an arrest report obtained by investigative journalist Laura Loomer, Jose Angel Marinelarena punched Edyta Jagas twice in the face this past Spring after the woman confronted him over unpaid rent.
The 69-year-old Marinelarena, a Mexican immigrant, has a prior conviction for drug trafficking with alleged ties to the violent Juarez cartel in Mexico.
Gallego's Republican opponent, Kari Lake, has repeatedly blasted the Democratic Congressman for his support for the Biden-Harris government's open borders policies.
Lake has raised Marinelarena's ties to the Mexican drug cartels, suggesting Gallego and his father's relationship might not be as distant as the Congressman suggests.
"We need to be calling out what [Gallego] is about. I want to confront the cartels I want to end the cartels," Lake said at a news conference last Saturday.
The latest survey has Gallego narrowly leading with 50 percent of the vote to Lake's 46 percent.
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