'I'm going to run for president,' former GOP congressman Joe Walsh announces on ThisWeekABC. 'We've got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president and it stuns me that nobody stepped up.'
Conservative firebrand former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh announced Sunday with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC's"This Week" that he's launching a long-shot Republican presidential primary challenge against President Donald Trump.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel told ABC News in response to Walsh's announcement,"President Trump enjoys unprecedented support among Republicans. He has already delivered a long list of incredible accomplishments for conservatives and the country. Republicans are firmly behind the president and any effort to challenge him in a primary is bound to go absolutely nowhere.
Stephanopoulos pushed back and pointed out a number of Walsh's comments, including calling Obama a Muslim, an enemy and a traitor, and as recently as August 2017 tweeting,"Senator Kamala Harris said something really dumb. Meh. If you're black and a woman, you can say dumb things. Lowered bar." Throughout Sunday's interview, Walsh used harsh, inflammatory language to describe the president — calling him"incompetent,""nuts,""erratic,""narcissist,""bully,""coward,""completely unfit,""disloyal," and"un-American."
"It doesn't matter. Absolutely, I'm going to do whatever I can," Walsh said on"This Week.""I don't want him to win. The country cannot afford to have him win. If I'm not successful, I'm not voting for him."
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