President Donald Trump reendorsed Republican Colorado Rep. Jeff Hurd on Friday, less than a month after withdrawing his endorsement over Hurd’s vote against the president’s tariffs.
Trump wrote in a Friday post to Truth Social that Hurd’s primary opponent, former Colorado GOP vice chair and Navy veteran Hope Scheppelman, agreed to drop out of the race to join his administration “in a capacity to be determined.” The president first endorsed Hurd for reelection in October 2025, but unendorsed him and backed Scheppelman in February after Hurd and six other Republicans sided with Democrats on a House resolution repealing Trump’s tariffs on Canada.
“I met with Hope Scheppelman and her husband Steven, of the Radical Left State of Colorado, to discuss various opportunities to serve our Country in a different capacity than her current run for the United States Congress,” Trump wrote in his Friday post. “Together with them, we decided that Congressman Jeff Hurd, of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, should in no way, shape, or form, be impeded from winning the District in that the Democrat alternative is a DISASTER for our Country.”
“Therefore, I will be fully supporting Jeff’s Re-Election to the House of Representatives, giving him my Complete and Total Endorsement!” the president added. “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, however, struck a different tone in February when he declared on Truth Social he was “WITHDRAWING” his endorsement “of RINO [Republican in name only] Congressman Jeff Hurd” and “fully Endorsing Highly Respected Patriot, Hope Scheppelman, to take his place in Congress.”
“Congressman Hurd is one of a small number of Legislators who have let me and our Country down. He is more interested in protecting Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for decades than he is the United States of America,” the president added in his Feb 21 post, emphasizing that his “unbelievably successful” tariffs made “America Richer, Stronger, Bigger, and Better than ever before.”
“Taking back an Endorsement is a difficult decision for me. I have only done it once before, with a former Congressman named Mo Brooks, from Alabama, who was leading by 54 points after my Endorsement for U.S. Senate, and then, he unexpectedly, for strictly political reasons, changed his views on the Rigged Election of 2020, and lost his Race in a Landslide to Katie Britt, who I Endorsed,” Trump continued in the February post, referring to the 2022 Alabama Senate election.
“These are the decisions that must be made, however, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he emphasized, regarding his decision to unendorse Hurd at the time.
Spokespersons for the White House and Hurd did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Scheppelman was unable to be reached for comment.
“I’m grateful for President Trump’s support and appreciate his efforts to unify Republicans in Colorado’s Third District,” Hurd wrote in a Friday X post following Trump’s renewed endorsement. “The President and I share the same goals: securing the border, American energy dominance, and helping working families. I will continue to focus on representing Colorado’s Third District, delivering results for rural Colorado, and running a serious campaign to earn the support of voters across the district.”
I’m grateful for President Trump’s support and appreciate his efforts to unify Republicans in Colorado’s Third District.
The President and I share the same goals: securing the border, American energy dominance, and helping working families.
I will continue to focus on…
— Jeff Hurd (@jeff4colorado) March 20, 2026
Hurd now appears to be running unopposed for the Republican nomination for Colorado’s Third District and is a lock to win it on June 30, given that the filing deadline passed on Wednesday and no other challengers can enter the race against him.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the general election in the Western Colorado district — which voted for Trump by 10 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election — as “Likely Republican.” The seat is not one of the dozens on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) target list, which instead includes the neighboring Fifth District, which Trump carried by a slightly smaller margin in 2024.
The district was notably represented by Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, who directly preceded Hurd. Boebert moved to the redder Fourth District in 2024 after unexpectedly almost losing reelection two years earlier.
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