President Donald Trump on Friday demonstrated he’s willing to change course — if it will keep control of Congress from changing hands.
Less than a month after very publicly supporting Republican Rep. Jeff Hurd’s primary opponent, Trump used a post on the social media platform Truth Social to announce he is now backing Hurd’s re-election in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District — and opening a spot in the administration for Hurd’s challenger.
At a time when the GOP majority in Congress can be counted with one hand, andevery Republican vote counts, it’s likely a sign that Trump is trying to cut down potential losses in November’s midterms.
“Every true MAGA supporter and Republican, if they truly care about saving our Country, will do everything in their power to unify together, and defeat the Crazed Radical Left Democrats this November,” Trump wrote in thepost.
In Trump’s case, that means backing away from a position announced less than a month ago, when he supported Hurd’s challenger in a blistering, Feb. 21Truth Social postthat blasted Hurd as a “RINO” — or Republican in Name Only — and accused Hurd of being “more interested in protecting Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for decades than he is the United States of America.”
The post specifically criticized Hurd for failing to support Trump’s tariff policies on foreign goods entering the country.
In the same post, Trump endorsedHope Scheppelman, a Navy veteran and critical care nurse practitioner challenging Hurd for the GOP nomination in the district.
That endorsement is no longer operative.
Trump wrote that he had met with Scheppelman and her husband “to discuss various opportunities to serve our Country in a different capacity than her current run for the United States Congress.”
One of those opportunities will be serving in the Trump administration in an as-yet-undetermined role.
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