Scott Walker officially announced his bid for the presidency on Monday, launching his campaign from some of the most reliably Republican turf in America and the site of the Wisconsin governor\u2019s most unlikely victory.<\/p>\n
Suburban Milwaukee\u2019s Waukesha County is where Walker celebrated the 2012 recall victory that propelled him to national prominence. It was a bruising battle that added to an impressive streak over more than two decades in which Walker appeared on a ballot 14 times, and failed just twice. That record is at the heart of his pitch to Republican voters.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy record shows that I know how to fight and win. Now, more than ever, we need a president who will fight and win for America,\u201d Walker said, his sleeves rolled up. . . .<\/p>\n
\u201cAmericans deserve a president who will fight and win for them. Someone who will stand up for the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone who will stand up for our religious rights and all of our other constitutional rights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Walker ticked off a list of conservative grievances and vowed to address most of them on \u201cDay One\u201d of his presidency. Walker pledged to push for a repeal of Obamacare, sign off on the Keystone pipeline, terminate any nuclear deal with Iran and to take the threat of Islamic State more seriously than the threat of climate change.<\/p>\n
He proudly pointed to his conservative wins in Wisconsin, taking on the unions, scoring a voter ID law, defunding Planned Parenthood and enacting anti-abortion legislation.<\/p>\n
In many ways, Walker\u2019s crippling of collective bargaining power for unions in his first term fueled his rise. The legislation he championed underscored the weakening of the labor movement around the country in a state considered friendly to organized labor.<\/p>\n
He emboldened other governors and legislatures to pursue similar reforms, and his knockout punch came when he beat back the unions who sought to unseat him using Wisconsin\u2019s unusual recall law. No governor had ever survived one before, and his win against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett added to his presidential r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n
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