Cresent Hardy

Cresent Hardy (2015)

Cresent Leo Hardy (born June 23, 1957 in Mesquite , Nevada ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From January 2015 to January 2017 he represented the state of Nevada in the US House of Representatives . He lost in the 2016 and 2018 elections for his previous mandate.

Career

Cresent Hardy attended Virgin Valley High School in Mesquite until 1975 . He then graduated from Dixie State College in St. George , Utah . He then worked as a building contractor.

From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the Mesquite City Council, and from 2011 to 2014 he was a member of the Nevada Assembly .

In the 2014 election , Hardy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Nevada's fourth congressional constituency in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat Steven Horsford on January 3, 2015 , whom he defeated in the election. In the presidential election in 2016 , he supported initially Donald Trump . In October 2016, however, he declared that he would not vote for Trump. He himself was defeated by the Democratic candidate Ruben Kihuen in the election for the House of Representatives and therefore resigned from Congress on January 3, 2017.

Hardy ran for Nevada's 4th Congressional District in the 2018 election and won the Republican primary with 47.4 percent of the vote. He met Steven Horsford again in the November 2018 main election, whom he beat in 2014 after Kihuen failed to run again for alleged sexual harassment. Political observers saw in this mid-term election in presidential Donald Trumps benefits for Horsford. Horsford won the election with 52.0 to 43.7 percent and a good 19,000 vote lead. During the election campaign, Hardy had emphasized strengthening national security and transportation infrastructure, while Horsford had focused on improvements in education and affordable health insurance.

Web links

• Cresent Hardy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Cresent Hardy at Vote Smart (English)

supporting documents

1. ^ Steven Horsford, Cresent Hardy win Nevada 4th Congressional District primaries. In: The Washington Post , August 8, 2018.
2. ↑ 2018 Midterm Election Forecast: Nevada 4th. In: FiveThirtyEight .
3. ^ Bill Dentzer: Horsford beats Hardy in rematch for Nevada's 4th Congressional District. In: Las Vegas Review-Journal , Nov. 7, 2018; Our Campaigns election result .