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In this May 3, 2014, file photo, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker speaks in Milwaukee.
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 11:26 a.m.
Nevada will be the first national stop for GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker.
Walker, a two-term Wisconsin governor, will be in Las Vegas on Tuesday to kick off his national campaign. He will then head to Iowa and other bellwether states to rally support in a race featuring more than a dozen mainstream GOP candidates.
Details about the Las Vegas stop have not yet been released.
Walker has a reputation as a union-buster governor who’s dismantled collective bargaining and other laws protecting organized labor in his state.
Nevada, one of the nation’s remaining strongholds for organized labor, has also seen collective bargaining reforms and other measures aimed at unions pass the Legislature.
Walker’s stop is indicative of Nevada’s influential role in presidential elections. The state’s diverse population and shifts in voter turnout have many pollsters calling it a toss-up state that could help decide the election.
GOP presidential candidates, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and others have already made multiple trips to Nevada.
Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have also stopped in Nevada since announcing their candidacies.
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