Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a once rising star of the GOP presidential pack, has dropped out of the race. Now the field is scrambling to re-align.

By the time Scott Walker dropped out of the 2016 presidential race Monday, few in the political world were surprised.

About a year and a half ago, I wrote a piece here about a phenomenon I called The Great Whitebread Hope, which is an ongoing Republican establishment fantasy of electing an upper-midwestern “reformer” in the LaFollete tradition who can bring together all the disparate factions of the party and offer up an image of respectable, mature, pragmatic leadership (and incidentally pick up some badly needed electoral votes from somewhere).

Turns out billionaires can't buy the White House.

Though his White House prospects are dead, Walker's donors and early-state backers are very much in demand. And they're getting a lot of attention.

Over the last few weeks, the news for Scott Walker's presidential campaign has been getting grimmer and grimmer:

After leading the polls in Iowa for much of the year, Walker has fallen to 7th place there in the RealClearPolitics average.
That's his best poll result — he's now in 9th place nationally and in 10th in New Hampshire.
Walker has failed to impress in the two debates so far. In the second of those, he spoke the least of any candidate, and the moderators only asked him two direct questi

With his number crashing and his donors grumbling, Scott Walker is focusing all his efforts on Iowa.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he is ready to “wreak havoc on Washington” by taking on special interests with his union-busting style, even as he has plummeted to the bottom of the GOP primary pack in Iowa, a key state in the Midwesterner’s path to the presidential nomination.

Mr. Walker, who in two months has fallen from 18 percent to 3 percent in Quinnipiac University polling among Iowa voters, said Sunday the mainstream media are fixating on his stumbles instead of what regular Americans want to talk about — the economy and his plan to repeal Obamacare.

Wisconsin Gov. Said Scott Walker President Obama is not doing enough to protect police from attacks in the wake of recent officer killings across the country.

"He has-been silent on This, and that's an outrage," Walker Told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview Sunday on "State of the Union."

The Republican presidential candidate reiterated comments tying Obama to police killings That I first made ​​in a Sept. 2 op-ed on the conservative Web site HotAir.com

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker surged into the top tier of the Republican presidential race with a fiery speech in the depths of winter in Iowa. But his candidacy has wilted in the heat of a summer dominated by Donald Trump, with loyalists and supporters now calling for an immediate mid-course correction.

Walker’s backers see a campaign discombobulated by Trump’s booming popularity and by his provocative language on immigration, China and other issues. They se