Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has accepted a full-time position running a national conservative youth organization based in northern Virginia, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Said Walker: “This would preclude me from running for governor in this next cycle or running for the U.S. Senate if Ron Johnson’s seat is open.”
Departing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) told the Associated Press that he’s keeping his campaign accounts open and wouldn’t rule out running for governor again in four years.
He also said he would consider running for U.S. Senate in 2022 to replace Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has said he would not seek a third term.
Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker (R) “lost a very narrow race for reelection to Democratic challenger Tony Evers on Tuesday. But it wasn’t close enough to qualify for a recount — thanks to a law he signed himself last year,” CBS News reports.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “The Republican plan to take power away from the incoming Democratic governor could include overhauling state boards and removing authority that Republican lawmakers handed to GOP Gov. Scott Walker (R) when he took office in 2011.”
“Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) said Thursday that Republicans are looking at giving incoming Gov. Tony Evers (D) less say in state rules that implement state laws. Eight years ago, Republicans handed Walker more power over those rules when he was first sworn in.”
“After upending Wisconsin politics and infuriating liberals across the country, Gov. Scott Walker (R) narrowly lost his bid for a third term Tuesday to Tony Evers (D), the leader of the education establishment Walker blew up eight years ago,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
A new Marquette University Law School poll in Wisconsin finds Gov. Scott Walker (R) and challenger Tony Evers (D) is dead-even at 47% each.
The Crystal Ball released a few new Reuters/Ipsos polls of competitive races:
Also interesting:
A fourth former official in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) administration has publicly denounced the governor as he seeks a third term, while releasing a letter calling for the election of challenger Tony Evers (D), the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
“A number of Republicans running for governor or senator in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, including several who hitched their wagon to Trump’s political movement, are behind in polls by double digits, a remarkable turnabout in swing states that were key to the president’s 2016 victory,” the Washington Post reports.
“If current polling averages hold, Democrats will maintain all their Senate seats in those states, pick up a handful of House seats and, in some cases, retake the governors’ mansions.”
A new NBC News/Marist poll in Wisconsin finds Tony Evers (D) leading Gov. Scott Walker (R) by 10 points among likely voters, 53% to 43%.
This contrasts with a Marquette poll yesterday that had Walker leading by one point.
A new Marquette University Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Gov. Scott Walker (R) barely ahead of challenger Tony Evers (D), 47% to 46% among likely voters.
Last month, Evers had a 5-point lead.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) released one of the stranger political ads of the year.
A new Marquette University Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Tony Evers (D) has opened a lead over Gov. Scott Walker (R) among likely voters in the race for governor, 49% to 44%, with Libertarian Phil Anderson at 6%.
Evers and Walker were tied at 46 percent each in the August poll.
In the race for U.S. Senate, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) opened a huge lead over challenger Leah Vukmir, 53% to 42%.
Politico: “There’s every reason to believe this is the beginning of the end for Scott Walker. His presidential bid crashed and burned. He’s running for a third term as governor in what figures to be a hostile midterm for the Republican Party. Polling shows that the independent voters who were so critical to Walker’s wins in the 2012 recall and 2014 reelection are breaking away from him.”
“After years of futility, Democrats here are convinced they finally have him cornered.”
A new Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/Suffolk University poll in Wisconsin finds Tony Evers (D) leading Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the race for governor, 46% to 44%.
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) leads challenger Leah Vukmir (R), 50% to 42%.
A new Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Gov. Scott Walker (R) deadlocked with challenger Tony Evers (D), 46% to 46% among likely voters, with Libertarian Phil Anderson at 6%.
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) barely leads challenger Leah Vukmir (R), 49% to 47%.
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Wisconsin shows shows Tony Evers (D) leading Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the governor’s race by five points, 49% to 44%.
A new Emerson College poll in Wisconsin finds that Tony Evers (D) leads Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the race for governor, 48% to 41%, with 7% of voters still undecided.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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