What the Marquette Law School poll means for Walker

A new poll shows Gov. Scott Walker leads the field of Republican presidential candidates in his home state of Wisconsin.

But the Marquette Law poll released Thursday is just the latest indication that the Wisconsin governor’s campaign is in serious trouble.

Ben Carson came in second, with the support of 13 percent of the state’s Republicans, and Trump finished third with 9 percent. In April, the Marquette poll had Walker at 40 percent.

In a head-to-head matchup of Walker against Hillary Clinton, Wisconsin voters would opt for Clinton, 52 percent to 42 percent. Indeed, FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten later found that Walker was the only Republican to have lost support in every single post-debate poll as of August 12. 802 people were surveyed. “But it is clear that while people who consider themselves Republicans are pretty strongly supportive of the governor’s (White House) race, those who are independents and only lean to the Republican party, on balance, would say that they would rather he wasn’t running”, Franklin said. The margin of error was 4.3 percent on the poll done between Aug. 13 and Aug. 16 in the days following the first Republican presidential debate.

Monitor FOX6 News and FOX6Now.com for updates on this developing story. Stanley S. Hubbard, a conservative billionaire who oversees a Minnesota broadcasting company and has donated to Walker’s campaign, said the candidate has promised that he would not push a “social agenda” as president and is simply expressing his personal beliefs when asked… So then another other part of his brain says, “The only winning move is not to play”.

The only presidential candidate with a net favorable rating among Wisconsin voters is Dem. Bernie Sanders.

The ballot additionally exhibits Walker’s job approval score is at an all-time low, at 39 %. The margin of error for the Republican sample is +/-6.6 percentage points and for the Democratic sample it is +/-6.1 percentage points. He said he would also restructure Medicaid, letting states decide how to use federal funding with “no strings attached”.

On Monday, Walker spoke with Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy and said Trump’s harsh immigration position was “very similar” to the immigration position he supported as Wisconsin governor.