Scott Walker Stumps in South Carolina
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ABC News(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker continued his presumed quest to seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination by making several appearances in South Carolina Thursday where voters go to the polls next February for the first southern primary.
The governor, who has won three elections in four years, including an effort to recall him, has positioned himself as a Washington outsider with broad appeal to both Republican establishment-types and social conservatives.
Walker is particularly attractive to GOP voters in South Carolina for his strong stance on national defense, opposition to unions and religious roots as the son of a Baptist preacher.
His only drawback at this point is being unable to match the fund-raising ability of probable frontrunner Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who still hasn’t formally declared his intention to run for the White House.
Seeking to set aside doubts that he can’t keep up with Bush, Walker told one gathering that South Carolina Republicans were among his “almost 300,000 donors in the past four years” from all 50 states.
“Only Mitt Romney has more donors on the Republican side than that, and obviously he’s a former nominee,” Walker added.
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