Scott Walker Drops Out Of Presidential Race

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is dropping out of the Republican presidential primary, he announced in a press conference Monday in Madison, Wisconsin.

“I am suspending my campaign immediately,” he said in a press release.

As recently as July 20, Walker led the Republican field in Iowa, according to a Monmouth University poll. In a CNN poll released Monday, Walker did not register any support among likely Republican voters.

Walker called on other Republican candidates to do the same so the party can “focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current frontrunner.”

Walker’s most notable policy among Republicans was his strong anti-union stance.

In March, he made Wisconsin the nation’s 25th right-to-work state, severely limiting the power union’s had in his state.

Walker survived a recall election in 2012 after he restricted the collective bargaining abilities of the state’s workers and was re-elected governor in 2014.

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