The Republican presidential primary got a little smaller on Monday evening. Will Hurd, the former representative for Texas’s Twenty-third Congressional District, a massive district spanning parts of both South and West Texas along the Mexican border, announced that he was ending his campaign. “While I appreciate all the time and energy our supporters have given, it is important to recognize the realities of the political landscape and the need to consolidate our party around one person to defeat both Donald Trump and President Biden,” Hurd wrote in a fundraising email to supporters. The announcement comes fewer than two weeks after Hurd told supporters via email that, after missing the cutoff for both candidate debates, his campaign was at “an inflection point.” But to anyone watching…
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