Joe Walsh won't be on the GOP Primary ballot. Yes, Illinois is his home state.

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It appears that the presidential campaign of Joe Walsh is going poorly.

He won't be on the ballot for the Illinois GOP presidential primary this spring.

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

GOP presidential hopeful Joe Walsh, a former suburban Chicago House member, will not be on the March Illinois primary ballot, his spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, shrinking an already narrow sliver of a path he has to defeat President Donald Trump.

Walsh spokesman Charles Siler said Walsh was “heartbroken” to skip home state Illinois with the decision made to allocate scarce resources in other states, especially Iowa and New Hampshire, the states with the first 2020 votes in February.

“It’s the strategy that we have to take to stay viable,” Siler said.

The Trump campaign filed petitions for the president and delegates with the Illinois State Board of Elections on Thursday, with GOP Illinois Reps. Darin LaHood and Mike Bost on hand as well as the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, Tim Schneider.