Scott Walker drops out of USA presidential race

Scott Walker, once considered a rising star of the Republican Party, has dropped out of the race for the White House, as Donald Trump and Ben Carson also face pressure to withdraw. His term as governor runs through 2018. Former Walker supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire said they were now in for Florida Sen.

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 contests. “Those people better find different candidates, I guess”, Hubbard added.

As Dara Lind has long been writing, immigration is a particularly thorny issue in the GOP race, since it splits party elites from core conservative organizers and activists. But Walker’s failure at the last debate guaranteed an early exit. Those elites strongly believe the GOP nominee needs to win Latino swing votes to carry the general election – and that moderating on immigration is the best way to do so. “He’s made a decision not to limp into Iowa”. “It certainly didn’t hurt him when he did it before since he went on to be governor”.

Walker’s fall was in many ways more dramatic than Perry’s. “You have the hourglass of sand and at the end of the day, there’s only one seat”. At one point, he said he isn’t a career politician – despite having held elected office for 22 straight years. Walker echoed Perry’s withdrawal, referencing the crowded field and urging his rivals who weren’t near the top to also consider their options and how a divided electorate might be benefiting Trump.

But the anti-union policy, announced in the days before the second GOP debate, wasn’t mentioned at all on stage.

While only Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The glowing statements from his onetime rivals praising Walker quickly followed, and any of them would be lucky to have his support – and more important, his donors and staff. Once he formally left the race Monday afternoon, the jockeying only intensified.

“I’m disappointed”, said Stanley Hubbard, a billionaire media mogul from Minneapolis who had backed Walker’scampaign.

The campaign sought to renew its focus on Iowa given its proximity to Wisconsin, but a CNN/ORC poll on Sunday showed the magnitude of his problems.

“No, no. No, a thousand times, no”, Bush responded, when reporters put the question to him after a campaign event here.

Walker, one of the most divisive political figures in Wisconsin history, will have some work to do repairing his relationship with voters in his home state. Rubio and Walker have expressed admiration for one another on the trail – with Walker even openly floating Rubio as his potential vice president – and both have tried to bridge the GOP establishment with its more conservative grassroots.

We don’t really know, then, which mistakes did Walker in, and which ones didn’t.