Scott Walker Endorses Ted Cruz for President

Former presidential candidate and Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker endorsed Ted Cruz for president Tuesday.

“After all the years of Obama-Clinton failures, it’s time we elect a strong new leader,” Walker told local Milwaukee station WTMJ, “and I’ve chosen to endorse Ted Cruz to be the next president of the United States for three simple reasons.”

Those three reasons, Walker went on to say, were his constitutional conservatism, his ability to take on big money interests and protect the taxpayers, and because he “fundamentally [believes] if you look at the facts and the numbers, that Ted Cruz is the best position by far to both win the nomination of the Republican Party and to then go on and defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall.”

Walker’s endorsement comes ahead of the crucial Wisconsin primary on April 5. The most recent poll of the Badger State finds Cruz ahead of Donald Trump by one point, within the margin of error.

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