Republican Will Hurd on his failed quest for president: ‘I’m going to always look at this fondly’

The former Texas congressman's long-shot 2024 bid has come to an end, but he has no regrets - and he insists Trump's nomination is not inevitable

Will Hurd wanted to be the most powerful man in the world. Like so many candidates before him, he knew the loneliness of the long distance runner criss-crossing Iowa and New Hampshire in a quest for votes that might make him president of the United States. But it was not be.

This week Hurd called it a day after a campaign that failed to make much of a splash. Indeed, arguably his biggest headline came in July when he declared, Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison," and was roundly booed at the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner. Unrepentant, Hurd told them: Listen, I know the truth is hard."