Former GOP congressman Joe Walsh announces he's running for president

NEW: Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh announces 2020 presidential campaign, saying he's running because 'we can't take four more years of Donald Trump.'

Former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., announced on Sunday that he is running for president, giving President Donald Trump another primary challenger as several other Republicans weigh jumping into the race.

"I'm going to run for president and I'm happy to be on your show announcing my candidacy," Walsh told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on"This Week," adding,"We’ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president. And it stuns me that nobody stepped up. Nobody in the Republican party stepped up.

"See, Donald Trump doesn’t represent us — he represents the worst of us," Walsh continued."He hasn’t delivered on his promises, he thinks he’s above the law, and he’s tweeting us into a recession, as we speak. You know it, I know it, we all know it: We can’t afford four more years of Donald Trump. No way."

Walsh joins former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, the Libertarian Party's 2016 vice-presidential nominee, in the Republican primary field facing Trump.

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