Walker’s campaign announced he would hold a news conference in Madison, Wisconsin, at 6 p.m. ET on Monday, but it did not say what he would discuss. His campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Once a considered a front-runner, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has chose to end his campaign for United States president amid dwindling contributions and plummeting poll numbers.
After a dramatic fall from the top tier of Republican presidential candidates over the last several weeks, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ended his bid for the White House Monday. It was just about everything.
Walker is the second candidate to exit the race, following former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who bowed out earlier this month after his fundraising dried up, with many of his staffers working without pay in the campaign’s final days.
When confronted by protesters at the Iowa State Fair, “Soapbox” Walker gave a passionate response that would have made a great campaign ad, saying, “I am not intimidated by you, sir, or anyone else out there”.
Mr Walker, who gained national attention for fighting unions in his state and surviving a heated recall election in 2012, struggled to distinguish himself in a crowded Republican field.
Some have placed the blame for his campaign’s demise on his group of aides. “He probably wasn’t going to get the nomination, but he certainly should’ve been more competitive than he was”.
Disagreements between Walker and the Republican-dominated Legislature over debt levels and other matters prolonged the budget debate. Once the public knew his position, he was political toast. He initially showed interest in building a wall between the us and Canada, only to laugh it off as ridiculous.
Walker’s admission last week that he was shifting course and putting “all our eggs in the basket of Iowa” was a sharp departure from his campaign’s confident predictions earlier in the year about plans to rack up delegates throughout the South and Midwest late in the primary contest.
“It still remains to be seen how this shakes out, but it looks like it remains Trump against the other Republican candidates”, said another party strategist, Ron Bonjean.
The National Review also wrote about rumored problems within Walker’s campaign and its strategy, including “rumors of profligate spending” as his team sought to staff up early in the election season. And while Walker’s political action committees had raised large amounts of money for advertising, his campaign couldn’t legally start corralling donors until his candidacy was official.
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The final blow came Sunday, with the release of a new CNN/ORC poll. “You’ve got one debate a month”.
