Never Trumpers Want a GOP Alternative. Most Republicans Don’t.
Former Representative Joe Walsh is running against a president who, polls show, is no more vulnerable to a primary challenge than his recent predecessors were.
In 2012, an unknown candidate named Keith Judd registered a stunning 41 percent of the vote against then-President Barack Obama in the West Virginia Democratic primary. Neither man had even campaigned in the state leading up to the election, although Judd, at least, had a good excuse: He was incarcerated in a Texas prison at the time, serving a 17-year sentence for extortion.
This year, President Donald Trump has two announced primary challengers for the Republican nomination, and neither is a felon. Both, in fact, are former Republican elected officials: ex–Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld and former Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois. But if either man
