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September 21, 2015 03:04 PM UTC

Scott Walker to Drop Out of Presidential Race

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

And then there were…15?

It looks like Craterville for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who will end his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination as soon as this evening, according to multiple news outlets. From NBC News:

The Republican was once considered a frontrunner for the GOP nomination, topping polls in Iowa and winning accolades from conservatives for his fights against labor unions during his tenure as governor of the state.

But a series of missteps — and the rise of unconventional candidates like Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson — found him plummeting in national and key early state polls.

A CNN/ORC poll out this weekend found Walker winning support from less than one-half of one percent of GOP primary voters.

There are a lot of different reasons for the abysmal showing of Walker on a national level, but  our friends at “The Fix” speculate that Walker was ultimately buried by Donald Trump’s personality:

From the day Trump entered the race in mid-June, Walker struggled to find his footing in a race in which the “star” was no longer Jeb Bush — a relatively conventional opponent — but rather an entertainer who would say and do anything to draw attention.

As Trump went from a novelty act to the star of the presidential campaign, Walker’s ‘Joe Average’-schtick began to feel like an echo of a race that was no longer being run.  Crowds packed in cheek-to-jowel to listen to Trump regale them with the famous people he knew and the “big” deals he had cut. Walker just kept telling the same story about how he got his sweaters at Kohl’s.

Not that there’s anything wrong with Kohl’s.

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17 thoughts on “Scott Walker to Drop Out of Presidential Race”

  3. Walker should have stayed in the race. It's too early to know anything yet, and he wasn't out of the running. This is another reason I think primaries should be shorter.

    1. There is also that nagging thing about all those indictments of Walkers political aides coming out of Madison.  Scotty is going to look mighty fine in pinstripes.

      2. Scotty will be fine unless the Feds get involved, and most of his infractions have involved state lawbreaking so far. He's got the state Supreme Court packed with buddies who have committed some of the same infractions with the same people, so he's safer than Christie on the legal angle for now.

  4. I so enjoyed posting this once before, I'll say it again:

    Walker took on the unions and won, but the Republicans have proven to be too much for him to handle.

    1. The hair on Rubio reminded me of that problem he had 5 years ago when he ran for the senate and it turned out he billed the Florida GOP for his sessions have the hair on his back waxed.

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