Walsh For President | |
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Campaign | 2020 United States presidential election (Republican Party primaries) |
Candidate | Joe Walsh U.S. representative from IL-08 (2011–2013) |
Affiliation | Republican Party |
Announced | August 25, 2019 |
Suspended | February 7, 2020 |
Key people | Lucy Caldwell (campaign manager)[1] |
Receipts | US$480,115.17[2] (12/31/2019) |
Slogan | Be Brave |
Website | |
http://www.joewalsh.org (archived - January 10, 2020) |
Former U.S. representative Joe Walsh's campaign for President of the United States in the 2020 election began on August 25, 2019, when he announced his candidacy during an interview on ABC's show This Week, concurrently with the release of a video and a tweet. Walsh was challenging incumbent Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, along with former Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld. Walsh had been a strong supporter of Trump's during the 2016 election but had gradually become disenchanted with the President, describing him as "morally unfit". In view of Trump's high popularity among Republicans and Walsh's own history of controversial statements, Walsh was considered a long-shot candidate for the nomination. He announced the suspension of his campaign on February 7, 2020, after poor results in the Iowa caucuses.