Walker tweets presidential run earlier than planned

Scott Walker is running for president, he announced in what appeared to be an unintentional tweet on Friday.

The Wisconsin governor isn’t expected to formally announce until Monday, but on Friday afternoon, the Republican appeared to tweet a black-and-white image of himself waving onstage that read, “Scott Walker is running for president.”


The tweet was still viewable under his account later Friday afternoon, but had been taken down by Friday night.

“Stay tuned for Governor Walker’s announcement on Monday at 5pm CT,” spokeswoman AshLee Strong said in an email, when asked for comment.

Late Friday, a Twitter spokesperson said, “We’re looking into today’s issue, and we’ve determined the Walker team was not at fault.”

If the tweet was indeed unintentional, Walker wouldn’t be the first candidate to get scooped on his own announcement: Earlier this year, a video of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson saying that he was announcing his candidacy aired the night before his announcement — something he wasn’t planning on, he said at the time.