off the list. ready? scott walker going bye-bye in three, two, one. gone. scott walker poofed. scott walker being out of the race. i maintain tells us very little about who is likely to be the republican nominee for president of the united states of america. it is likely to have zero effect on the top-tier contenders. because he had less than 1/2 of one percentage point support in nationwide polls. the more pressing question it raises is who s likely to be the next candidate at the bottom of the list to drop out? because in that latest cnn national poll with that devastatingly low result of support for scott walker he is tied at that devastatingly low level of support with four other candidates. he s tied in the cnn poll below 1%, at the very bottom of measurable support, he s tied with george pataki and lindsey graham and bobby jindal and jim gilmore. how long are those guys going to stay in the race? in the latest iowa poll, the ppp iowa poll that is just out
whether or not you think scott walker quit will go help or hurt donald trump s chance of getting the nomination, there s a few nuts and bolts things to consider. and one thing i think everybody s getting wrong already about scott walker, the thing everybody s get wrong is the question of when scott walker started to die as a presidential contender. a lot of people today are saying his campaign fell apart after the first debate in which governor walker didn t have an oops moment or anything but he did have a rather lackluster performance. if you go back and look at the polls, the inflection point at which he starts dropping both in iowa and nationally, that inflection point comes before the first debate, he was already starting to crater before that first debate ever happened. that s one thing to consider about the history here. something else to consider about scott walker which i think may become important in short order is that scott walker is one of the candidates who prioritized ra
like he really might have a shot at the nomination is that he won the billionaire bingo. he had the koch brothers in his corner more than any other candidate. and they had supported him so long and so generously in wisconsin it felt natural i m sure for their largesse toward his wisconsin political career to extended to a national campaign as well. and that sort of support i think in particular gave scott walker a perceived momentum and positive beltway press that tended to outweigh the unfortunate ground truth of what would happen when scott walker opened his mouth as a real presidential candidate. by mid summer, by july scott walker was doing great in the polls. he was the clear front-runner in iowa. he d been for weeks. he was polling well into the double digits in national polling. he was definitely a top-tier national contender. that was all before he formally got into the race. but then he did have to formally get into the race. and again, just something was a little off. this wa
seem very viable, made it seem like he really might have a shot at the nomination is that he won the billionaire bingo. he had the koch brothers in his corner more than any other candidate. and they had supported him so long and so generously in wisconsin it felt natural i m sure for their largesse toward his wisconsin political career to extend doto a national campaign as well. and that sort of support i think in particular gave scott walker a perceived momentum and positive beltway press that tended to outweigh the unfortunate ground truth of what would happen when scott walker opened his mouth as a real presidential candidate. by mid summer, by july scott walker was doing great in the polls. he was the clear front-runner in iowa. he d been for weeks. he was polling well into the double digits in national polling. he was definitely a top-tier national contender. that was all before he formally got into the race. but then he did have to formally get into the race. and again, just some
peal as freefall and fading into the background. scott walker donors in fact started talking to the press about other candidates who they also liked in addition to their like for scott walker. governor walker s top-flight, top-dollar campaign team, at that point they picked a new catch phrase for the governor to drop into his appearances and his stump speeches. he started to say in early september that if elected he would, and i quote, wreak havoc in washington. this past friday night we reported governor walker had given up a keynote address opportunity in michigan this weekend at a big republican event in michigan as a sign of some of the chaos in his campaign it appears what actually happened is governor walker gave up that keynote address so he could spend more time campaigning in iowa. he then, after canceling his keynote, asked to be put back on the schedule of that republican event in michigan this weekend, at a time that was more convenient for him. so they put him back on the