Posted on 06/22/2023 6:46:44 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd on Thursday launched a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, joining a crowded field looking to challenge front-runner former President Donald Trump.
“This morning, I filed to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States. This is a decision that my wife and I decided to do because we live in complicated times, and we need common sense,” Hurd said on CBS.
Hurd has been outspoken in his criticism of Trump following the former president’s indictment and arrest on federal charges over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
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Some wiki stuff....
In February 2017, Hurd voted against a resolution that would have directed the House to request ten years of President Trump’s tax returns, which would then have been reviewed by the House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session.[54] In February 2019, on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher pressed Hurd about his vote against the February 2017 resolution to request Trump’s tax returns. Hurd said that the resolution had not been on the floor for a vote, but that he would support renewed efforts by the House to obtain the returns.[55]
In July 2019, Hurd was one of four Republican House members to vote in support of a motion to condemn tweets by Trump calling for the members of the Squad to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”.[56][57]
Hurd did not openly support impeachment for the Trump-Ukraine scandal of fall 2019. He said, “some of these things are indeed damning. However, I want to make sure we get through this entire investigation before coming to some kind of conclusion”.[58] In December 2019, he voted against both articles of impeachment.[59]
In a July 2020 interview, Hurd said he might not vote for Trump in the 2020 presidential election
Allegheny College gave the 2018 Prize for Civility in Public Life to Hurd and Beto O’Rourke, a Texas Democrat. In March 2017, facing snowstorm-induced flight cancellations, Hurd and O’Rourke, both stuck in San Antonio, needed to get back to Washington for a House vote. They rented a car and embarked on a 1,600-mile (2,600 km) drive that they captured on Facebook Live.[49][50][51] Hurd and O’Rourke worked together on legislation subsequent to the road trip.[52]
In 2019, Hurd was one of eight House Republicans who voted in favor of the Equality Act, which would provide federal non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans.
Former CIA, need I say more?
NEVER HURD of him.
What a waste of time.
“This is someone who is spitting in the face of the thousands of men and women who put themselves in harm’s way every single day, who’s away from their families every single day in order to protect our country,”
WTF? Don’t you mean Biden? Harris? or any other democrat?
No, I doubt I have ever Hurd of him before (pun intended).
I think he means Gyorgy Schwartz.
Running for Secretary of the Interior.
Ex-CIA RINO. We have ex-CIA, current Dem Congressman, Slotkin running for Senator in Michigan. Ex-CIA, current Dem Congressman Spanberger, being groomed to be a Senator from VA.
I’m trying to figure out the political strategy going on here with all the not-well-known with no-chance-in-hades-to-win folks getting into the primary. Are the Never-Trumpers trying to make DJT blow all his money getting the nomination?
... or what ?
Who?
Negro, please.
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