Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman, says he’ll challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020. The tea party favorite argues that Trump is unfit for the White House.
Walsh announced his candidacy during an interview on ABC’s “This Week'” on Sunday. Also in the race is Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor.
Walsh won a House seat from suburban Chicago in the 2010 tea party wave, but lost reelection in 2012 and has since hosted a radio talk show.
He has a history of inflammatory statements regarding Muslims and others, and said just before the 2016 election that if Trump lost, “I’m grabbing my musket.” Walsh has since soured on Trump.
(AP)
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Joe who?
He wrote one of the best songs of the 20th century: “Life’s been good”.
im really very disappointed in him. I used to listen to him at night but I have stopped as he doesn’t have good things to say. I’m not saying Trump can’t be criticized. There are times he should be. But this guy sounds like a demented dem. So I stopped listening to him. And he should be ashamed of himself. There’s probably a good reason he only served one term in Congress.
He has no chance of winning, so this is symbolic. He also does not pose a danger to Trump since he and anyone who supports him, remember he’s a Tea Partier, will be comfortable supporting Trump over socialists. And he is keeping the “flag flying” for a conservative to challenge the populist wing that is now controlling the Republican Party, with the idea of the conservative Republicans (Tea Party, anti-deficit, anti-tax, for a strong foreign policy) reasserting itself post-Trump.
The key thing for him, and Trump, is for both of them to be very polite so they can work together against the socialists in the general election (and the Republicans need both the populists and the traditional Republicans to win an election).