MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – Former Governor Tommy Thompson says Wisconsin should be proud of the presidential campaign Scott Walker ran.
The current governor suspended his White House bid Monday, the second of 17 Republican hopefuls to pull out.
Thompson says Walker had the Badger State at the “front and center” of the national debate.
Thompson ran for president in 2008, but a 6th-place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll made him withdraw the summer before the state’s caucuses.
Advisers and pundits have spelled out a list of reasons Walker couldn’t survive.
Thompson tells the Wisconsin State Journal it all comes down to this: “When your polls get out, your money dries up.”
Thompson pointed to Sunday’s CNN/ORC poll showing Walker less than one-half of one-percent of support nationally.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
