Joe Walsh becomes second Republican to challenge Trump for White House
Former GOP congressman Joe Walsh has become the second Republican to challenge President Donald Trump for the party’s 2020 White House nomination.
“I’m running because he’s unfit,” Walsh told ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday. “Somebody needs to step up.”
He will join former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, who announced his candidacy in April.
Walsh, who has a strong approval rating among his party's base, called Trump a “bully” and a “coward,” saying, “Somebody needs to call him out.”
“The bet ... of my campaign is that there are a lot of Republicans that feel like I do. They’re afraid to come forward.”
Earlier this month, Walsh, a radio show host since losing reelection in 2012, also criticized Trump, saying he could not deal with the issues of migrants and trade.
"Mr. Trump isn't a conservative. He's reckless on fiscal issues; he's incompetent on the border; he's clueless on trade; he misunderstands executive power; and he subverts the rule of law. It's his poor record that makes him most worthy of a primary challenge," Walsh wrote in a New York Times op-ed.
Trump, who is now facing reelection in 14 months, has been criticized over his handling of several key issues: immigration, health care, foreign and guns policy, particularly following recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, which left 31 people dead.
His approval rating has gone down in recent months and according to a recent poll, sixty-two percent of Americans said they disapprove of the job Trump is doing, while just 36 percent approve.
The poll by the Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was released on Thursday.
The nationwide poll was conducted August 15-19, 2019, using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,058 adults. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
Also, a Fox News poll showed earlier this month that his disapproval rating had risen to 56, with only 43 people contacted for the survey, saying they approved of Trump's job performance, down from 46 percent last month.
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