Joe Walsh’s campaign will focus on Donald Trump's character. But the former congressman has made plenty of racist comments himself
might seem an odd foil to President Donald Trump. The media-savvy former congressman, a Tea Party-firebrand, who announced his Republican primary challenge to the president on August 25th, has had a long record of controversial and racist remarks in his record as both a politician and radio host. “I do feel a responsibility for helping to put Trump in the White House. And I have publicly apologised for that, because to me Donald Trump is like the worst version of a Joe Walsh,” he says.
Yet Mr Walsh is plunging into the treacherous waters of primarying a sitting president, all the same. He was not a devoted Never Trumper. In his telling, the spectacle in Helsinki of an American president trusting Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies put him permanently off. The rest of his fellow Republicans might not see it that way.
One big problem looms for Mr Walsh’s candidacy. Since announcing his presidential bid, past ugly comments have resurfaced and forced a reckoning. “I wouldn’t call myself a racist, but... I’ve said racist things on Twitter,” he said in a recent television interview. Many saw him as a proto-Trump—a booster of the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim. Though Mr Walsh has since recanted, the long list of such remarks might spoil his chances with disaffected Republican voters.
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