WI-Sen: We don't think anyone had been hoping that Scott Walker might run for Senate, but the former Wisconsin governor took himself out of the running regardless on Monday, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he plans to continue running the conservative youth organization he's been heading since 2019. "I would be bored as senator," the one-time Republican rising star added.
But Walker’s star has dimmed quite a bit in more recent years. He narrowly lost re-election to Democrat Tony Evers in something of an upset in 2018, which followed a 71-day presidential campaign that saw him drop out in the hopes of clearing the field for an alternative to Donald Trump.
Walker had no better success taking on Trump in a proxy fight just last year. Though he cut ads on behalf of his former lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, in her bid to unseat Evers, she lost the GOP primary to a Trump-backed opponent, businessman Tim Michels, who in turn was defeated by Evers. Walker, though, still seems to think he might make a return someday: He recently told the New York Times that he might run for president again in the future, pointing out that he's "a quarter-century younger than Joe Biden."