Former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, the Republican who represented District 23, announced Thursday morning that he is running for president in 2024.
He represented the sprawling district that extends from San Antonio to El Paso along the U.S-Mexico border from 2014 and announced he would not seek re-election for a fourth congressional run in 2019.in 1995 before heading to Texas A&M for college.
Hurd graduated in 2000 with a computer science degree and a job lined up at the CIA.Hurd won his first election in therace against Democrat incumbent Pete Gallego by a margin of more than 2,000 votes in 2014. He later faced Gallego again in the 2016 election, where the race was decided by 3,051 votes. Due to increased turnout, Hurd won by less than 2% of the vote.
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