June 22, 2026 04:51 PM UTC

Jeff Hurd Has Nothing to Say for Himself

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• by: Colorado Pols

Last week Robert Tann of Vail Daily reported on the little-discussed Republican Primary in CO-03, where incumbent freshman Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd is being challenged once again by former State Rep. Ron Hanks. Hurd seems to be hoping that voters have either forgotten or were never aware of the fact that his heart pumps only Kool-Aid.

Hanks said that Hurd has been largely absent when it comes to interacting with voters. The two Democrats running for Hurd’s seat, Alex Kelloff and Dwayne Romero, have also knocked Hurd for his lack of in-person town halls since being elected.

“Jeff Hurd has hidden from the voters,” Hanks said. “We call him, ‘never seen, never ‘Hurd.’”

And how does the Bread Sandwich respond to Ron Hanks? By essentially proving out the criticisms against him:

Hurd declined to be interviewed for this article but his campaign manager, Nick Bayer, said Hurd would participate in an interview for the general election. [Pols emphasis]

Neat!

Hurd has apparently not changed his media strategy since Election Night 2024, when his campaign took the extremely bizarre step of confining reporters to a curtained area away from the rest of the attendees at his watch party. As long as Hurd continues to act like he is doing local reporters a favor by speaking to them, journalists should in turn ignore his office whenever it seeks out earned media coverage.

In the meantime, reporters should continue to point out that Hurd is as afraid of upsetting President Trump or House Speaker Mike Johnson as he is of talking to his own constituents. Hurd made a fool of himself early in his term by pretending to oppose cuts to Medicaid that threaten rural hospitals in his district, going to far as to sign his name to multiple letters proclaiming that he just wouldn’t stand for such cuts…until he voted for the very same cuts himself.

After Hurd was un-endorsed and then un-un-endorsed by Trump earlier this year, whatever was left of his spine turned to dust. When asked by Colorado Public Radio last month to comment on Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists, Hurd embarrassingly claimed not to know enough about the subject to voice an opinion. One week later, Hurd proudly announced that he had joined a working group to address gerrymandering in the 2026 election cycle, nevermind that this particular horse had long since left the barn.

While Hanks’ non-funded campaign is no real threat to Hurd in the GOP Primary, it will be harder for the Bread Sandwich to hide from whichever Democrat — Alex Kelloff or Dwayne Romero — emerges from the June 30 Primary Election.

Until then, Hurd had better figure out something to say about why voters in CO-03 should give him a second term in Washington D.C. Right now the only thing Hurd can really boast about is that he isn’t quite as useless as another fellow Republican “Jeff” in Colorado: Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado Springs.

In truth, Colorado would be better served with a completely Jeff-less congressional delegation.