On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus likened Republican Senate candidate Tommy Thompson, a former governor of Wisconsin, to two of the best-known brand names in the state.
He was discussing the down-ticket impacts of a surging presidential candidate:
As the top of the ticket does well, so does most everything else. I will take my own state of Wisconsin, for example. The polls were clearly far apart at every level in Wisconsin and now, Mitt Romney and president obama are neck in neck in Wisconsin and so is Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin and I think in that particular case, Tommy Thompson, he is like — in Wisconsin, he is like Harley Davidson and Miller Lite and Tommy Thompson — they all kind of go together, he’s a brand.
