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Scott Walker makes forceful 2016 pitch at Republican Iowa Freedom Summit
Source: The Guardian
Scott Walker makes forceful 2016 pitch at Republican Iowa Freedom Summit
Jon Swaine in Des Moines, Iowa
theguardian.com, Saturday 24 January 2015 21.03 GMT
Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin forcefully pitched his presidential credentials to right-wing Republicans on Saturday, as conservatives pledged to stop Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney from securing the party’s nomination for the White House in 2016.
Addressing a gathering of conservatives in Iowa that fired the starting gun on the race for the Republican candidacy, Walker said he had shown that “common-sense conservative reforms actually work”, in a Democratic-leaning state won twice by President Barack Obama.
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Walker also touted his record on opposing abortion, cutting taxes, expanding rights for gun owners, cutting regulation for business and forcing voters in his state elections to prove their entitlement to cast ballots with photographic identification.
He spoke as the morning headliner at the Freedom Summit, a one-day meeting convened by Steve King, the firebrand Republican congressman for Iowa and talk radio host renowned for his strident views on topics such as immigration.
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Jon Swaine in Des Moines, Iowa
theguardian.com, Saturday 24 January 2015 21.03 GMT
Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin forcefully pitched his presidential credentials to right-wing Republicans on Saturday, as conservatives pledged to stop Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney from securing the party’s nomination for the White House in 2016.
Addressing a gathering of conservatives in Iowa that fired the starting gun on the race for the Republican candidacy, Walker said he had shown that “common-sense conservative reforms actually work”, in a Democratic-leaning state won twice by President Barack Obama.
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Walker also touted his record on opposing abortion, cutting taxes, expanding rights for gun owners, cutting regulation for business and forcing voters in his state elections to prove their entitlement to cast ballots with photographic identification.
He spoke as the morning headliner at the Freedom Summit, a one-day meeting convened by Steve King, the firebrand Republican congressman for Iowa and talk radio host renowned for his strident views on topics such as immigration.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/24/scott-walker-2016-republican-iowa-freedom-summit
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