Will Hurd calls Trump-Biden 2024 race a ‘rematch from hell’
Brady Knox
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Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) described a potential rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump as a “rematch from hell.”
Hurd, 45, made the comments during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The moderate Republican bashed Trump and cast doubt on the certainty that he would be the 2024 Republican nominee, despite his lead in the polls.
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“When you talk to individual voters, they care about our role in the rest of the world. And so… don’t be discouraged. The reality is two-thirds of Americans want somebody other than Donald Trump and Joe Biden. That’s like the rematch from Hell and nobody wants… sorry moms. I don’t mean… to say that,” Hurd said amid laughter. “But nobody wants that. Nobody wants that as… a choice.”
He went on to elaborate as to why he believes Republicans are ready to move on from Trump, despite his major lead in the polls.
“Even people that like Donald Trump and were proud to vote for him think that Donald Trump has a lot of baggage that’s going to hurt Republicans’ chances in 2024,” Hurd said. “A lot of those voters believe that Donald Trump’s mouth gets in the way and prevents us from talking about issues that matter. You said this at the top of your show; the GOP lost the House in 2018. We lost the Senate and the White House in 2020. The red wave that should have happened in 2022 didn’t happen. And all that is because of Donald Trump.”
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“The election’s not today, right? I think… the fact that in that CNN town hall, he was just looking backwards,” he added. “He’s not looking to the future. He’s not looking about (sic) how do we tackle things like inflation? What would he put forward to solve the border crisis? How are we going to make sure that America stays the most important country in the world? And if we’re constantly looking backwards, that’s a losing strategy, but the election is many months away.”
Hurd is widely seen as a possible moderate Republican alternative for president, a possibility he has hinted at several times. During his appearance on “Meet the Press,” he said that he would make his decision on whether to run “very soon,” sometime before Memorial Day.