Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a onetime CIA officer and fierce critic of Donald Trump, announced Thursday that he’s running for president, hoping to build momentum as a more moderate alternative to the Republican primary field’s early front-runner.
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Hurd said in a video launching his White House bid that the “soul of our country is under attack,” reminiscent of Democrat Joe Biden’s slogan about the 2020 race being a “battle for the soul of the nation.”“Our enemies plot, create chaos, and threaten the American Dream. At home, illegal immigration and fentanyl stream into our country. Inflation, still out of control. Crime and homelessness growing in our cities,” Hurd says in the video. “President Biden can’t solve these problems — or won’t.
Although Hurd is no fan of Trump, he also has been critical of Biden, telling NBC’s “Meet the Press” in May that the prospect of another election pitting the current president against the former one would be “the rematch from hell.” Most of the Republican candidates in the race are trying to run more against Biden than against Trump, who largely remains popular among GOP voters. But Hurd joins Christie and Hutchinson in his willingness to criticize Trump and his continued hold on the national Republican Party.
Hurd represented his state’s then-most competitive district, which was heavily Hispanic and stretched from the outskirts of San Antonio to El Paso and encompassed more than 800 miles of the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border.
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Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a Trump critic, announces 2024 Republican presidential campaignHurd served three terms in the House through January 2021, becoming the chamber’s only Black Republican during his final two years in office.
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