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applegrove

(118,749 posts)
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 02:21 AM Aug 2019

Will Hurd Won't Seek Re-Election

Will Hurd Won’t Seek Re-Election

August 1, 2019 at 8:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 169 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/01/will-hurd-wont-seek-re-election/

"SNIP....

Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), “the lone black Republican in the House and the rare GOP lawmaker to criticize President Trump at times, will not seek reelection,” he told the Washington Post.

“Hurd’s retirement is the third by a Texas Republican in the past week and the ninth by a party incumbent, dealing a blow to GOP efforts to regain control of the House in next year’s election.”

......SNIP"

We saw this in Canada in 2015 when all sorts of conservatives decided not to run. Though it wasn't obvious liberals would win the conservatives saw the writing on the wall long before.

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Will Hurd Won't Seek Re-Election (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2019 OP
Hurd is the coolest Republican in the House, bar none ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #1
 

mr_lebowski

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1. Hurd is the coolest Republican in the House, bar none ...
Fri Aug 2, 2019, 02:42 AM
Aug 2019

That's not saying THAT much, but he's the last one I wanted to see retire. He's hella young still, too. A rare voice of reason among that insane party.

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