Hanks, 59, is a former state House member who ran unsuccessfully for the 2022 GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 32 years. He attended the Jan. 6, 2021, “March for Trump,” but said he didn’t enter the Capitol in the ensuing riot. He moved to Grand Junction from Cañon City earlier this year. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California in 2010. He faces five other candidates in the June 25th Primary.