The Horrible Humbling of Scott Walker ha ha Trump camp tweeted Thanks to the Wrong Walker!
I really do not think anything will humble Walker.
The Horrible Humbling of Scott Walker https://www.thenation.com/article/the-horrible-humbling-of-scott-walker/ … #RNC. ha ha Trump camp tweeted Thanks to the Wrong Walker! #wiright #wiunion
Cleveland—Until Donald Trump got into the 2016 Republican presidential race, Scott Walker was kind of a big deal.
In June, 2015, polls had Walker leading in the race for the Republican presidential nomination—and the governor of Wisconsin was leading the field in key primary and caucus states.
But once Trump targeted Walker—in the first of his brutal takedowns of Republican rivals—the Wisconsinites presidential bid crashed and burned. Quite horribly.
“I unequivocally denounce him.” —Scott Walker on Donald Trump
The horror was not complete until Wednesday night, however, when Walker appeared on the stage of the Republican National Convention that he had hoped would be nominating him this year. Instead of enjoying the accolades, he was embracing the candidacy of the man he once decried and denounced. Unlike Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the movement conservative who refused to compromise with the Trump campaign’s demands for partisan obedience (and, in so doing, created some actual political drama), Walker bowed to the new boss of the Grand Old Party. ....................................
.............Walker did his part, endorsing Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the Wisconsin primary and cheering on the last-ditch efforts of the so-called “#NeverTrump” movement in April and early May.
Walker did not stop there. While Cruz earned Trump’s wrath by suggesting that Republicans should “vote your conscience” in November, Walker decried talk among serious conservatives about backing a third-party contender such as Libertarian Gary Johnson.
“Let me be clear: A vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary Clinton,” declared Walker, who not that many months ago was griping about Clinton and Trump as “such poor choices.”
Translation: Remember all that #NeverTrump talk? Well, #NeverMind.
And what did Scott Walker get in return for his surrender on the third night of his party’s convention? A thank-you tweet from the nominee, which was polite enough—except for the fact that it tagged the wrong Scott Walker (a television anchor in New Orleans).
Even at a convention where Donald Trump has humbled an entire political party, it will never get any more humbling than that.
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That wasn't any more of an accident than the appearance of Michelle Obama's words in Melania Trump's speech or Chris Christie speaking just before national TV coverage began.
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