Will Hurd, a former congressman from Texas, former CIA agent, and outspoken Trump detractor, has declared his intention to run for president. He wants to establish himself as a serious moderate challenger to the Republican front-runner.
Hurd had a stellar record at 45 years old, having been elected to the House for three terms in a row until January 2021. During his final two years in Congress, he created history by being the only black Republican in the chamber.
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“We need common sense,” Hurd, the one who announced the news on “CBS Mornings,” adding, “I believe the Republican Party can be the party of the future, not the past.”
The former congressman said in a campaign video that the “soul of our Country is under attack,” similar to Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s claim that the 2020 election is 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. 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.”
Hurd stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in May that the idea of another election putting the current president against the former one would be “the rematch from hell.” Hurd claims he is out to redraw the boundaries of the 2024 contest.
He referred to himself as a “dark horse candidate” on Thursday and asserted that the only way to win is to “not be afraid of Donald Trump” and that “we also have to articulate a different vision.”
Hurd is one of several famous candidates running in the Democratic primary, including DeSantis, Pence, Scott, Haley, Christie, Hutchinson, Burgum, Ramaswamy, Elder, Suarez, and Trump.
The former congressman recently traveled to both Iowa and New Hampshire. Political rivals like Hurd now have a chance to advance in the primary since Trump is being prosecuted on federal felonies for handling confidential material.
Hurd stated on Thursday that if Trump is convicted in the federal lawsuit, he would not be pardoned. Additionally, he called those Republican candidates for president who made such a vow right away “insane,” since it is too early in the process to make such claims.
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Trump is suspected of handling classified data, according to Hurd, which means they contained “information that, if it got into the wrong hands, would lead to a loss of life.”
“And the fact that Donald Trump willingly kept that material, and he wants to be leader of the free world, is unacceptable to me,” Hurd said on the early-morning CBS program. “It spits in the face of the thousands of men and women who, every single day and every single night, put themselves in harm’s way in order to keep us safe.”
Instead of attacking President Trump, who continues to have solid support from the Republican base, several GOP candidates are instead concentrating their campaigns on targeting Vice President Biden.
Despite the previous president’s ongoing hold on the national Republican Party, Hurd expresses criticism of Trump in the same manner as Christie and Hutchinson.
Hurd decided against running for reelection to the House in 2020, stating at the time that he would rather “pursue opportunities outside the halls of Congress to solve problems at the nexus between technology and national security.”
He conducted a nationwide tour to promote his book last year, “American Reboot: An Idealist’s Guide to Getting Big Things Done.”
With a district that stretched over 800 miles of the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border, from the suburbs of San Antonio to El Paso, Hurd personified his state’s most ferociously antagonistic region. The Hispanic population was almost 70% of the whole.
Hurd, a knowledgeable former Congressman, previously worked as a secret operative in Pakistan, where he is proficient in Urdu, the official language of that nation.
Despite receiving little attention from the general public, Hurd enters the fiercely contested GOP primary with a solid record in Congress as a pragmatic, pro-business legislator who isn’t afraid to work across the aisle.
In 2017, a snowfall that grounded aircraft to Washington gave him the confidence to make the tiresome, protracted trip from San Antonio to the capital. Representative Beto O’Rourke, a liberal Democrat from El Paso who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2020, accompanied him on the two-day road trip.
Hurd, a cybersecurity specialist, suffered a professional blow when he was booted from a keynote speaking position at a 2019 cybersecurity conference. His opposition to a law intended to financially empower women in the STEM sectors and his earlier backing of Republican ideas on abortion restrictions were the reasons behind this.
However, he has consistently criticized many of the contentious social topics that other Republicans advocate for, stating back in 2019 that “Our culture wars have grown to every facet of American life.”
Hurd promises to close the political divides impeding the county’s advancement.
“America is better together,” he said Thursday. “And way more unites us than divides us.”
The longest-running streak in the nation, Texas has produced presidential candidates who have lived there while campaigning for government or who have acquired public prominence in the state.
It has been 49 years since Texas failed to produce a notable presidential contender.
