Former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, who came close to making the debate threshold, has refused to pledge support for the eventual GOP nominee.
, allowed the speculation to fizzle out, focusing instead on their current offices. Dallas-area businessman and pastor Ryan Binkley also announced his candidacy last spring.that he had reached the donor requirement.“A lot can happen in the next 10 days, and so I want to be able to force that conversation and see what happens,” Hurd said in an Aug. 13 CNN interview. “And if Donald Trump doesn’t participate, what is the RNC going to do? So there’s a lot of variables at play here.
“Anybody who thinks that these are overwhelming odds, I would tell them I disagree with them. Nobody thought a Black Republican could win in a 72% Latino district on 820 miles of the border,” Hurd said in the CBS interview. “But it happened, because I showed up to places that people didn’t expect me to be.”
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