Will Hurd Jumps Into The Race!

Will Hurd jump into 2024.

Remember this is how Washed Up 45 won the nomination. There were over 20 candidates running and despite all that, Washed Up 45 maintained a healthy lead throughout the whole ordeal. Each of the candidates running can't figure out whether to attack the former president or to embrace his strategy.

Former Texas U.S. Representative Will Hurd who recently joined MSNBC as a political analyst announced he will run for President.

Six people of color are in the race for the Republican nomination.

Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Larry Elder, Tim Scott, Francis X. Suarez and Will Hurd.

Hurd, who represented Texas in Congress from 2015-21, begins his campaign as a major underdog. He is an unabashed moderate and a Washed Up 45 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.”

In the CBS interview, Hurd said he was running because he was “pissed” that elected officials are focusing on issues of the past rather than the future, like the rise of China and artificial intelligence. Hurd acknowledged he is a “dark-horse candidate” but sought to distinguish himself with his electoral record and willingness to criticize the former president.

Hurd is poised to be the highest-profile Texan running for president this election cycle, which began with speculation that bigger names, like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott, could vie for the White House. Both now appear unlikely to do so.

The former president's allies responded harshly to Hurd’s entrance. A pro-Washed Up 45 super PAC issued statements calling Hurd a “RINO” — Republican in Name Only — and saying it “means nothing for President Trump’s standing.”

A former CIA officer, Hurd represented the 23rd Congressional District, a massive district in South and West Texas that includes hundreds of miles of Mexican border. It was a national battleground district while Hurd held the seat, with both parties pouring millions of dollars into the November elections.