The Wisconsin governor said he always tries to listen to voters, when asked by Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics what the difference is between changing your mind on an issue and flip-flopping.

“The key is if you listen to people and you’ve got a valid argument for why you’ve done it—we’ve laid out exactly what we’ve done,” he said in the state that will hold the nation’s first primary next year. “But I think people want strong leaders and they want leaders who listen to the people.”…

Asked by an activist about his views on the national Common Core education standards, Walker again declined to directly call out Bush, who supports the standards. “I believe we need to move wholesale proportions of the federal government back to the states, and in some cases, back to the local governments, like education,” he said. “I’d rather just have the money and the authority go back to the local level.”