The Wisconsin governor’s brand of union-bashing conservatism didn’t light a fire under the national GOP base.
Out of money, his support plummeting, Scott Walker abandoned his bid for the presidency today. The Wisconsin governor, whose vicious campaign against public unions brought him national attention, soared briefly in polls this summer. But he performed poorly in the first two debates, his poll numbers dropped below 1%, and his donors bailed. When the end came, it came all in a rush. Walker’s face-saving rationalization: He vacated the race to give someone else a chance to deny Donald Trump the nomination. Very touching, but it isn’t true. The ambitious Walker wanted to be president so badly he could taste it. After all, this is a guy who’s spent his entire adult life as a politician. By the way, his popularity is tanking in Wisconsin, too.