Shortly after GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in Janesville late Tuesday, he struck back at Gov. Walker, for endorsing fellow Republican Ted Cruz, earlier in the day.
Trump pulled out a piece of paper during a rally, listing negative statistics about Walker’s Wisconsin. He bowed out of the presidential race last year, not long after Trump entered it and began surging in the polls.
“Look, he certainly can’t endorse me, after what I did to him in the race, right? But look at this. By the summer of 2015, Wisconsin was facing a $2.2 billion two-year budget deficit; that’s terrible. By the way, these are out of books – this isn’t Trump, 20,000 fewer people in labor force in Wisconsin than seven years ago. Now I wouldn’t have done this, but when he endorsed Cruz, what am I going to do, say he’s been doing a great job? He’s not doing a great job,” Trump said.
Trump criticized career politicians as being beholden to special interest money.
Tuesday morning, Walker first announced on a local radio station that he was endorsing Cruz, saying that they share political ideals.
“We want people who are principled, common sense conservatives, who are people who do what they say, who stick to their guns, but also people who can both win the nomination and go on to defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall, and for that reason, I am proud to endorse Ted Cruz. I wanted to make sure that I was supporting someone, I wasn’t against something or against someone, and after a long time looking at the speeches, looking at the records, it was an easy call for me to support Ted Cruz,” Walker said.
Cruz welcomed the governor’s endorsement and praised Walker for actions he’s taken in Wisconsin – such as weakening unions.
