“These are serious matters. This has long-term implications on our foreign policy.” Texas Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican and former CIA officer, is now at the center of the impeachment fight.
On a two-lane highway between Del Rio, Texas, and Eagle Pass, Republican Rep. Will Hurd shifted in the passenger seat of a small rental car. He’d folded his long frame into the tight space for the hour’s drive through his massive district, which stretches along more than 800 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The summer heat blurred the landscape outside.
How he handles the impeachment battle could shape public perception of whether the inquiry is a purely partisan exercise or an appropriate check on presidential power. “I think some of these things are indeed damning,” he said Friday on CNN after Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff released copies of text messages that had been exchanged among U.S. diplomats about the pressure on Ukraine. “However, I want to make sure we get through this entire investigation before coming to some kind of conclusion.”
Amid rapid demographic shifts across the country, and particularly in Texas, many viewed Hurd, who’d won a 70% Latino district three times, as the potential leader for the next generation of the GOP. Instead, in August, he joined the list of what are now six Republicans from the state’s congressional delegation who have announced they’re leaving Congress.
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