governor scott walker of wisconsin answering a question about fighting isis by comparing isis to schoolteachers and other protesters in wisconsin who did not like it when he abolished union rights in their state. did he really just compare isis to teachers? john halleman of bloomberg politics pressed governor walker on that point just moments easter finished giving that talk. governor walker insisted that really wasn t what he said and that s not certainly what he meant, and then said this thing about the grand canyon and there was also a mention of a land mine and a landslide. just to break it down, i mean, you re not actually comparing isis terrorists to the protesters in wisconsin, right? you re not trying make that comparison in either direction? that the protesters are equivalent to terrorists or the terrorists are equivalent to protesters. not by a landmine or by a landslide out there. not a grand canyon size difference. not a landslide. not a land mine.
i think there are more groups. everybody knows there are more groups. honest to god, i don t know what you re talking about. it is rare that you stun a veteran political reporter like john harwood, much less have him revoking god in saying i don t know what you re talking about. but ben carson managed to do that by talking about the unnamed you know who groups that are going to slippery slope the same-sex marriage thing into the you know what by you know who admit it you know what i mean. the thing about ben carson s campaign is he regularly flabbergasts reporters. interviews just stop. people who are used to covering politicians say all sorts of stuff don t know what to do with themselves when he starts talking. some reporters even have a tough time introducing things they have covered with him because his answers are so baffling. i ve got to tell you it was a big change for this presidential
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 today, scott walker was polling at 5%. which is a disaster for somebody who s whole presiden
doing well in the polls right now. he s a washington guy who spent his entire life working in government as well. marco rubio got a big bounce out of the debate. he s a lifelong politico. so this idea that scott walker, they can t win because he s been elected. these other guys are doing okay with it and he tried as hard as possible to run as an outsider. at the same time he s been an elected official all his life. maybe not in washington but he s been on the public till shortly easter got out of college. that s all he knows is the world of politics. i agree with you. we re certainly seeing the case that the outside candidates are very hot right now. but you need an establishment alternative. and he could have been that establishment alternative. he has a great track record for republicans. a republican who s governed a blue state. he could appeal to christian conservatives, business conservatives. he had the whole palette right there for him. but it was because of the trump entr
quit correspondent, isn t it weird that it s scott walker? oh, no. no? he was dead man walker for the last two and a half weeks. certainly since the aft debate when he made no impression and when the latest cnn poll came out showing him having less than 1% it was over. tied with jim gilmore, george pataki, bobby jindal, rick santorum. in iowa he s ahead of guys like rand paul, chris christie. he is doing better and seen as more viable than some of these other guys but he s the one who has to go? it s not that he has to go. i think he s someone that is very well respected and admired and taken seriously but he s in that very competitive establishment bracket. we talked last week, this is a race being dominated by outsiders. and that s why ben carson and donald trump and carly fiorina have more latitude with republican voters, because they are so hungry for someone outside of the establishment