Jeff Hurd survives the blue wave, likely as Colorado’s lone Republican in Congress

By Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun

At one point on election night, things were looking pretty bleak for Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd.

He watched from Grand Junction as results poured in across the country showing a Democratic wave swallowing up GOP members of Congress in districts much safer than his. Early returns had Hurd losing in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, too. 

“It was clear to me that this was a wave election,” Hurd told The Colorado Sun. “There was a moment there where the result was not clear and I recognized that there was a distinct possibility that I could lose.”

But like a surfer miraculously reappearing from deep inside a wave’s curl, Hurd managed to survive the political current, beating his Democratic challenger, former Aspen City Councilman Dwayne Romero. 

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