acts if we go through a couple of polls show his lead ebbing. how is he going to react to this. the big question all along has been can donald trump turn a campaign that s basically a creation of his media profile into a real campaign. with four or five months now before people start to vote, it s getting much more serious. this is the moment it s going to tell. and it will be really interesting to see how he react to the ups and downs of the speech. he s leading every poll and he tells everyone about it the whole time. he also said the jake tapper this morning, he said, you know, it s amazing to me how accurate polls are. so clearly they matter a lot to him. scott walker, a faux months ago, the front runner in iowa. granted it was early on. now he s not registering on this poll. he has less than one half of one percent. what happened to scott walker?
union . i m a little surprised where other polls actually picked up after the debate. i m in first place ever poll but gained substantially in a couple of them. but i m a little surprise. it s the poll. the only poll that matters is the big one. you know that one. it s going to be the election. meantime scott walker, wisconsin governor scott walker one-time leader in iowa barely register in this new poll, getting less than one half of one percent. let s break down the numbers. what you make of the rise, my friend? it s interesting. carly fiorina has given herself an opportunity to make a run for the nomination. but the question is, is the rise sustainable. if you look at the fund-raising of carly fiorina in this race, it s been pretty poor. the last accounting moment a
it s incredible really. i saw him early on in this race and i thought he was a very impressive retail candidate. the question with scott walker was always would he be able to adapt to the bigger stage, the greater scrutiny of the presidential campaign, the higher stakes and the pressure. he s had a few, what you could call unforced errors under the scrutiny of the media. and the conservatives are quite disappointed. they thought this guy scott walker was someone who had done very well in wisconsin, won in wisconsin, a state that barack obama won twice, and he would be a good candidate for has national election. it seems at the moment, and it s going to be difficult to come back from that, the highest political stage there is. this has not been a good run so far by washington insiders or just political insiders if you look at the recent. the top three, none of them politicia politicians. thank you so much.
let s talk more about the republican race for the white house with our political comentators, ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson show and a p prof profess professor. mark, this is if first time we ve seen donald trump lose points. did this debate reveal any trump weaknesses? is that what s going on? absolutely. and this is what i predicted back in the summertime. i said it was going to happen around this you predicted by october 24th, my friend, we wouldn t be talking about him. well it seems we re going to be talking about him but we won t be talking about him as a front runner. he ll say something absurd but he ll be doing it from the cheap seats. he doesn t know anything. he doesn t know the issues, doesn t know the topics. and when he s forced to talk
cnbc s rick santelli. former congressman democrat from tennessee, harold ford and jennifer granholm who left the state house last month and will be joining us on a regular basis as a contributor to our roundtable. governor, welcome. thank you. nice have you here. there s so much to talk about and as i said at the top of the program from wisconsin to washington it is this fight about reining in government spending. look at this picture. the sea of red. union protesters in the rotunda in madison, wisconsin, over the move by governor walker to take on the unions in this battle. this is how the new york times reported it on saturday. framed the issue. the images from wisconsin with its protests, shutdown of some public service and missing democratic senators who fled the state to block a vote, evoked the middle east more than the midwest. the parallels raise the inevitable question. what s at stake here? i don t think anybody disagrees that there has to be cuts. i don t hear anybod