Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, a average Republican and critic of Donald Trump, on Thursday introduced a bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
The transfer places him in competitors with the previous president, who’s looking for to retake the White Home after shedding the 2020 election.
“If we nominate a lawless, egocentric, failed politician like Donald Trump who misplaced the Home, the Senate and the White Home, everyone knows Joe Biden will win once more,” Hurd stated in a marketing campaign announcement video posted on Twitter.
“Republicans deserve higher. America deserves higher. It’s widespread sense,” he added.
Hurd previewed his choice to run throughout a Might interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Two-thirds of People need anyone apart from Donald Trump and [Democratic incumbent] Joe Biden,” he stated on the time. “That’s, like, the rematch from hell.”
Hurd, a former CIA clandestine officer, represented an enormous swath of West Texas from 2015 to early 2021. When he revealed in 2019 that he would not search a fourth time period, he was the only Black Republican within the U.S. Home of Representatives.
After the 2016 election, Hurd distinguished himself as a conservative extra keen to interrupt with Trump than lots of his colleagues. He was one among 20 Home Republicans to vote in opposition to a 2017 invoice that will have repealed core elements of former President Barack Obama’s Reasonably priced Care Act.
In 2019, Hurd referred to as Trump’s tweets attacking the “Squad” — a gaggle of Home progressives that on the time included 4 girls of coloration — as “racist and xenophobic.” He additionally condemned Trump’s obvious try and strain Ukraine into investigating Biden’s son that yr, at the same time as he stopped in need of voting to question Trump for his conduct within the matter.
And Hurd dubbed the riot on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, “a coup led by a president that won’t be peacefully faraway from energy.”
Hurd joins a rising area of Republican candidates hoping to tackle Biden. Along with Trump, his GOP rivals embody Nikki Haley, a former United Nations ambassador and governor of South Carolina; multimillionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy; and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who’s equally vital of Trump.