Posted on 06/22/2023 6:53:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
Former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, announced Thursday he is running for president, becoming the first Texan with experience in elective office to enter the Republican primary.
Hurd, who represented Texas in Congress from 2015-21, begins his campaign as a major underdog. He is an unabashed moderate and a Donald Trump critic in a party where many remain loyal to the former president and frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Hurd revealed his decision in a Thursday morning interview on CBS and followed it up online with an announcement video that began with Hurd listing illegal immigration, inflation and other problems before addressing the current and former presidents.
“President [Joe] Biden can’t solve these problems — or won’t,” Hurd said. “And if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like Donald Trump — who lost the House, the Senate and the White House — we all know Joe Biden will win again.”
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Ron DeSantis isn't a McRomBush but he's sure surrounded himself with them, and is apparently listening to them.
Don’t forget Mike PenceBush
Sounds like the Evan McMuffin of 2024.
Never heard of him.
Whatever. He’s playing in a crowded field if he’s trying to be the anti-Trump or Trump-bashing candidate.
Yes, sorry. Forgot about Mike McRomBush. But there’s a reason for that. He slipped my mind because he’s very forgettable.
Unlike Trump, Hurd is the one that is going to fail.
How many RINOS can you fit in a campaign bus?
[not counting Christy]
He practically is.
Will Liz Cheney throw her sombrero into the ring? The suspense is maddening.
He Will B. Hurd
GOP’s gonna need a really big clown car to get these folx to the debates.
Vote Sirius Lee 2024! At least before you consider this clown.
a major underdog
Ya’ think.
If I put a number on it would be more than ten to one.
That’s in digits not numbers.
I would like to get a copy of his donor list if ‘ol Will has one.
Could be Ron’s donors.
As a conspiracy theorist, I suspect the Uniparty is trying to fill the debate stage up with zombie candidates so Ron will have less chance of putting his foot in his mouth.
Although his foot seems to have been stuck in his mouth for most of his “declared” candidacy.
I suspect you are right on.
What are Pluto and Mickey Mouse doing for the next six years?
Porky Pig could be press secretary and run circles around
this ostrich feather we have now.
Whose next? Termites?
Will Turd, yea, he’ll go far.
Hurd was the Congress Critter for TX-23, the largest CG in Texas. While Hurd looks a bit hispanic he realized that he was probably going to lose to a D so he bailed out and went back to working for the FedGov. He was ex-CIA or ex-FBI before running for Congress. Most of his problems were that his voting was not nearly conservative enough for his district. While TX-23 is largely hispanic they are are also largely conservative. Outside of the San Antonio metro area TX-23 is ranches and farms worked by people who don’t care for ‘wokeism’, kwheers, CRT, DIE, etc.
Current rep Gonzales is a bit more conservative but not much.
Looks like the kiddie table debate circuit gonna be crowded…
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