A Republican congressional candidate in a closely watched race running in the mold of former President Donald Trump is blaming an anti-Trump Facebook post from 2016 on a prank by his son.
Ed Cabrera, among seven Republicans running for the 28th Congressional District, currently held by Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, is a businessman and rancher from the Rio Grande Valley, and is running as a Trump-like candidate.
But a February 2016 post, which showed Cabrera posing outside the Mexican consulate in New York City, includes the caption, "Better to be a Mexican, than to be a citizen of a country that elects Trump as President. Don't pay for the wall, arriba Mejico!"
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