'I’m suspending my campaign, but our fight against the Cult of Trump is just getting started.' Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh ends his Republican primary challenge to Pres. Trump.
on Friday, abandoning an effort that faced long odds and financial struggles from the start.
Walsh had cast his ballot for Trump in 2016 and declared he would be “grabbing his musket” if the Republican Trump lost to Democrat Hillary Clinton. But Walsh eventually soured on Trump, deriding him as “nuts," “cruel” and “incompetent.” He has also acknowledged that he helped “create” Trump through his own brand of “personal, ugly politics.”
Walsh also failed to get his name on the ballot in some states, including Vermont, Mississippi and Walsh’s home state of Illinois.
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