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But in the moment where he was a contender for a bit. look at the slide going down. this is what killed him, after the cnn debate he went to an asteric from 16% to barely registering. the peak in march he was considered the alternative, this is pretrump considered the alternative to jeb bush and lead income iowa nationally 20% among men and 1% now. 12% among republican women, doesnt register anymore and 12% in the tea party. doesnt register. fighting the unions in wisconsin a conservative hero. ...

A playout of that poll number you that just mentioned, that 0.0, and the notion that he had actually fallen to a point where it was very likely that he would be the first major contender to be pushed out of the main stage debates down to the kid table. and that -- for a guy with scott walkers ego and his lingering ambition, the fact he still wants to be in politics, the notion of being shuttled off to the kids table and having to debate bobby jindal, i just dont think appealed to him. >> thats f...

Realizes a lot of people live in wisconsin, not just hardcore conservatives and a lot of people have a lot of good ideas about what direction the state should go and hopefully hell listen to them. >> wisconsin state senator john erpenbach. nice to see you again. >> thanks. >> the prospect of not only scott walkers political career in wisconsin facing that dramatic recall election and all the rest of it. the prospect of scott walker as a presidential contender has completely loomed over that stat...

>> wisconsin state senator john erpenbach. nice to see you again. >> thanks. >> the prospect of not only scott walkers political career in wisconsin facing that dramatic recall election and all the rest of it. the prospect of scott walker as a presidential contender has completely loomed over that states politics for years now. having him come back as the senator says ascending to the top of the heap and then dropping out 69 race within 70 days is going to make wisconsin very unpredictable as sc...

Inspired effort to try to stop donald trump from winning the republican nomination. whether or not you think scott walker quit will go help or hurt donald trumps chance of getting the nomination, theres a few nuts and bolts things to consider. and one thing i think everybodys getting wrong already about scott walker, the thing everybodys get wrong is the question of when scott walker started to die as a presidential contender. a lot of people today are saying his campaign fell apart after the fi...

Should disqualify you from serving in office. >> reporter: this from the two leading contender, donald trump and carly fiorina ramp up their criticism of each other. >> i find it to be very robotic. a bigger problem is her horrible tenure at various companies that, frankly, were destroyed. >> reporter: fiorina joking with trump and vladimir putin on late-night television. >> youve met putin. >> the two of them have a lot in common, actually. but well just leave it at that. >> reporter: trump als...

With more on all of those moves. >> reporter: walker is the second candidate to drop out in less than two weeks. hes also the second candidate to do so while taking a swipe at front-runner donald trump. walker had been seen as a real contender a few months ago. now he says hes pulling out of the race for the good of the party. >> i will suspend my campaign immediately. >> reporter: two down, 14 more to go this morning in the crowded gop presidential race. wisconsin governor scott walker, now the...

Having watched him up close. john, are you surprised by this? >> yes. i was surprised that he did it today. i expected that scott walker would quit the race before iowa because theres no trampoline in presidential politics. you dont go to the top and then bounce back up. and so he was in trouble. but my sense was that he would at least hold on for a little longer. he had money. thats not the problem. he was running low. and knew money wasnt coming in. but he had enough to go on for a while longe...

The governors. several of them in this race. most people thought that one would emerge, whether it was perry or kashich or governor walker who was a leader in iowa. but unfortunately the debate, they have -- its become a trump show, and sort of a salesmanship type prom instead of heres what if have done. we have a large group of republican votes who say if youre part of the establishment youre part of the problem. i think governor walker, who has been through extraordinary battles and a great go...

Be in. >> was anybody on this panel surprised? because when i was watching it, i kept expecting donald trump to come back and say well 9/11 happened on your brothers watch. was anyone surprised that donald trump didnt say that or does no one want to touch that? >> ill jump in there. i spoke to trump. donald trump was -- he seemed very tentative and thats why he disappeared for those 35 minutes. he seemed tentative in getting into any part of the debate that had to do with national security or fo...