The Club for Growth meeting in particular highlighted a number of potential concerns for Walker going forward.
His comment that the “most significant” national security decision in his lifetime was when President Ronald Reagan broke the air traffic controllers’ strike left some in the crowd scratching their heads, though his point was that Reagan had shown the mettle he’d need to take on the USSR.
And his vague answer on a question about Wall Street regulations led to an incredulous follow-up from his interviewer, a backer of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who asked if he was “just not that aware of what’s happening with Dodd-Frank,” according to those in the room.
National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg wrote that, after both the Club for Growth event and CPAC, he’d heard from Republicans that the Wisconsin governor “is peaking too soon.”
Join the conversation as a VIP Member