Interesting. A lesser known former congressman joins in. I agree with Mr Hurd only occasionally but have always considered him a man of integrity - which is important to me. From the CIA to the White House? Former GOP Rep. Will Hurd launches 2024 campaign for president — Fox News Former GOP Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, a former CIA clandestine officer, is jumping into the race for the White House. Hurd, who was the only Black Republican in the House during his tenure in Congress from 2015 to 2021, officially declared his candidacy in an interview Thursday. He also filed Federal Election Commission paperwork to run. Hurd listed top issues as China, inflation, education and artificial intelligence.
I've listened to interviews of Will Hurd and consider him a very impressive person. Since Virginia doesn't have party registration if he is on the ballot I will probably vote for him in the Virginia Republican primary. That being said realistically he has virtually no chance of winning the nomination. My guess is that he has announced his candidacy to develop name recognition for 2028 when hopefully the Republican Party has purged itself of the affliction of Trumpism and has once again become a normal political party, probably the same reason that Francis Suarez has announced his candidacy.
Probably true although with the way delegates are allocated by state Republican parties with a number of them awarding delegates on a winner-take-all basis Trump can win the nomination with well under 40% of the total votes cast. In other words if Trump wins a state primary with 35% of the votes cast in a winner-take-all state it really doesn't make any difference how the remaining 65% are divided among the other candidates.
That’s the point though. Trumps hard core base can carry him through even if they aren’t the majority because the other votes will be split a dozen ways. He only loses if the other votes coalesce around a single alternative. Each new addition makes that less feasible.
It does help Trump in sense that he has his base locked up, so all the other votes get divided. If Trump gets 35%, and DeSantis gets 34%, its likely that the low percentage candidates have taken more votes from DeSantis than Trump, and caused him to lose.
I tend to agree using that hypothetical although I cannot see DeSantis coming remotely close to Trump. DeSantis probably reached his high point in terms of support before he formally announced his candidacy. His entire strategy is portraying himself as a version of Trump absent some of the original's baggage. Hardcore Trumpers who worship Donald Trump as if he were the leader of a cult would still prefer the real deal to an imitation and those GOP voters who want a real alternative to Trump are unlikely to turn to Meatball Ron.
I had an employee named Will Ford. He sucked and I fired him. He came back and didn't "pull" a gun on me, but he flashed one in his waistband to let me know he had it on him. He has hit me up 3 times since asking if he can come back to work for me. People are weird. Unrelated to anything, but felt like sharing.
Mr President, will you sign this bill? Oh, yeah, folder is kinda big, can you just slip it through the bars this way. Great - look, they have pens in the Gen - Pop laundry - I will sign it when I'm on duty or perhaps after I make some car tags: Donald Trump, 2x impeached, 2x indicted, with more to come.
Thanks VA - I think Ron has destroyed his agency by coat-tailing on Trump with his stupid MAGA social engineering polices. It's a shame to because he has political skills. Oh well, I guess he prefers hassling the LGBTQ community and Disney as compared to the work needed by the entire nation.
If DeSantis loses to Trump, he can be a pain in the ass for Disney for two extra years. It's all good.
