C_A/mil N_tel
Abigail Spanberger
Elissa Slotkin
Jeff Beals
Patrick Ryan—army intelligence
Will Hurd replaced—by ???
—Dem. candidate Gina Ortiz Jones, who is running again after her 2018 loss to Hurd by a razor-thin margin. She has built a massive fundraising advantage as Republicans have had to regroup since Hurd's August announcement that he will not seek reelection. Gina Ortiz Jones is a former Air Force intelligence officer who deployed to Iraq and worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
—Hurd endorses Tony Gonzales, cryptologist with the U.S. Navy from 1999 to 2019. He earned a master's degree in international relations and conflict resolution from American Public University in 2014 and a graduate certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown University.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/10/18/daily-202-ex-cia-officers-running-for-congress-as-democrats/59e6b25b30fb041a74e75de5/
"Intel officers aren't typically political," Dallek said. "The surge in them running as Democrats, it's pretty safe to say it's a reaction to Trump's concerted attacks" on the intelligence community.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/their-new-mission-foil-trump-ex-intelligence-officials-run-congress-n907291