Walker’s Support For Trump Wavers After Judge Attacks

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison, Wis., where he announced that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign. Walker told The Assoc... FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison, Wis., where he announced that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign. Walker told The Associated Press Tuesday, March 22, 2016, that he will decide next week who he intends to vote for the state's April 5, 2016 presidential primary and whether he will publicly endorse that person. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File) MORE LESS
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signaled Tuesday that he may not support Donald Trump unless he renounces his attacks on a federal judge’s ethnicity before being formally nominated at the GOP convention in July.

“He’s not yet the nominee,” Walker told local TV station WKOW. “Officially that won’t happen until the middle of July and so for me that’s kind of the time frame that, in particular, I want to make sure he renounces what he says — at least in regards to this judge.”

Walker previously said he would support the party’s nominee, noting that he thought Trump was a better candidate than Democrat Hillary Clinton. But he seemed to walk back that vow of support in the wake of Trump’s claims that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel wouldn’t be able to fairly preside over cases against Trump University because of his “Mexican heritage.”

Walker also told WKOW that he viewed a presidential election between presumptive nominees Clinton and Trump as a “sad” choice.

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  1. I love to see Trump’s support fade. But not yet, or at least not completely. Let him get the nomination, and freeze out any other candidate first. Then the GOP can crumble.

  2. Walker also told WKOW that he viewed a presidential election between presumptive nominees Clinton and Trump as a “sad” choice.

    For the GOP maybe.

  3. I got hooked on TPM many years ago, because of the photo selection. It is still good.

  4. Yet another VP candidate eliminated…

  5. “Walker also told WKOW that he viewed a presidential election between presumptive nominees Clinton and Trump as a “sad” choice.”

    You who could not even speak of “Evolution” as scientific theory when you were asked about it by a British journalist across the pond are not in the same Presidential league as Hillary. Pandering to the uneducated will get you the GOP nomination, but not the presidency.

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