By Jesse Byrnes - 09-21-15 16:12 PM EDT
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will bow out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination Monday evening.
Walker, who has seen his poll numbers plummet over the last several months, has scheduled a news conference in Madison, Wis., at 6 p.m.
The New York Times was first to report that Walker will announce he plans to drop out of the race. Walker has concluded he's unable to secure a path to the Republican nomination.
Once the front-runner for the nomination, Walker has suffered badly in recent polls over the past couple months, falling to less than 1 percent in a CNN poll released Sunday.
Last's Wednesday's GOP debate on CNN did little to help his standing, and a day later, Walker was on a conference call with donors trying to reassure them his campaign was still viable.
Walker's trajectory in the race changed dramatically in recent weeks.
As a sign of how seriously Democrats once took his candidacy, President Obama repeatedly singled out Walker for attacks.
He traveled to Walker’s home state of Wisconsin in July to tout his new overtime pay regulations. He slammed the “bus full” of Republicans vying to replace him for promotion “the same old trickle-down, ‘you’re on your own’ economics.”
After Walker said he would tear up Obama’s Iran nuclear deal on his first day in office, the president suggested he needed to “bone up” on foreign policy.
And he slammed Walker in March for signing a “right to work” law that curbed the power of labor unions, one of the governor’s favorite political targets.
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Jordan Fabian contributed.
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