From Tea Party to anti-Trump primary
Joe Walsh, who probably isn’t keeping Trump up at night. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Joe Walsh, the impetuous former Republican congressman, announced on Sunday that he was making a beyond-long-shot primary bid against President Trump, confirming last week’s report from the New York Times. “I’m running because [Trump is] unfit; somebody needs to step up and there needs to be an alternative,” he explained in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.
Walsh, who was elected out of Illinois as part of the Tea Party wave of 2010, then ousted by Democrat Tammy Duckworth two years later, made his name as a loud adversary of President Obama . In the years since his defeat, Walsh has remained semi-prominent, sounding off on social media, hosting a conservative talk-radio show, and popping up now and again with an inflammatory comment or two, like the time he labeled President Obama a Muslim in 2016.
“I helped create Trump,” the former congressman admitted to Stephanopoulos. He also made it clear he didn’t expect to unseat the GOP’s unclothed emperor, but hoped his candidacy would reveal the existence of an alternate Republican reality where Trumpism doesn’t reign.
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