Wall Street Journal
By Patrick O’Connor
August 24, 2015
Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker sat down with the Wall Street Journal on Sunday in
Franklin, Tenn., during his campaign swing through the South to discuss
how he plans to
navigate Donald Trump‘s surge in the polls and his own slippage. Below
are some excerpts of that conversation:
“We’re
doing the hard work of the town-hall meetings, the small-group
sessions,” Mr. Walker said. “I think that pays off because, while the
national media is focused a
lot on another candidate, in the end, voters in these early states
clearly take this stuff seriously. And, in the end, they’re watching
everything you do and say, and they want to see you.”
“Eventually,
there will be fewer candidates,” he said. “Part of the question for
someone like me is to say how do I make the case to those other
supporters to come to
us…To me, if you’re going to be with Donald Trump, you’re probably
already with him. If you’re going to be, for that matter, with George,
err, Jeb Bush, you’re probably already with him.
“For
everybody else, the question is to figure out, if candidates start to
drop out…do their supporters go somewhere else and then how do you make
that case. For us, the
good news has always been that, you’ve got all these different polls,
basically, your paper has pointed it out, [Marco] Rubio and I are at the
top of the list in terms of who is acceptable.”
“Trump’s
got a big piece of the pie right now, but there’s no margin for growth.
And that if you’re with him, you’re with him…for the rest of us, it’s a
matter of saying,
okay, that’s fine… For us, it’s kind of what I’ve done in the state:
steady growth, steady progress, show people that you’re serious, show
people how you get things done…for us, the strongest argument is that if
you want someone who can fight and win, who
can actually get results and do it without compromising their
principles, I’m your candidate.”
Mr.
Walker laughed off Mr. Trump’s attack Sunday accusing the Wisconsin
governor of parroting his hard-line immigration strategies, pointing out
Mr. Trump’s past donations
to his political campaigns, including the 2012 recall.
“He
goes after everybody at some point or another…He’s going to, because
the media puts him on all the time, he’s going to make comments on that.
We’re not going to get
caught up in that. We’re just going to stay focused on where our
strengths are, which is, if you want somebody who’s actually got a
proven track record, I’m your guy.”
Mr.
Walker said he thinks many of the voters expressing frustration with
Washington — like those voters rallying around Mr. Trump — will
eventually flock to the candidate
or candidates who can convince them they will get things done.
“In
any race, there’s going to be ebbs and flows, he said. “The bottom line
is we’re steady, just like we’re steady in our governance. We’re going
to be steady here.
“I
still think people come back home. People are frustrated and they’re
upset with Washington, they’re even upset with some Republicans in
Washington–heck, I’m upset with
some Republicans [in] Washington….if they’re just angry, they walk
out…most voters want something to happen, they want to get something
done. And I think as people look at that more closely, they will say who
has the real solutions…we’ve actually made the
tough choices and fought the big battles.”
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