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Ex-lawmaker announces he’ll challenge Trump for GOP nomination

25 August 2019, 4:54 pm Edit

WASHINGTON — Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman, says he’ll challenge US President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020. The tea party favorite argues that Trump is unfit for the White House.

Walsh announces his candidacy during an interview on ABC’s “This Week'” on Sunday. Also in the race is Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor.

Walsh won a House seat from suburban Chicago in the 2010 tea party wave, but lost reelection in 2012 and has since hosted a radio talk show.

He has a history of inflammatory statements regarding Muslims and others, and said just before the 2016 election that if Trump lost, “I’m grabbing my musket.” Walsh has since soured on Trump.

— AP

In this photo from November 15, 2011, then Republican Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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