Reject

Poll: Wisconsin voters reject Walker

By Nick Gass

Scott Walker remains unpopular among Wisconsin voters in the first poll conducted since the Republican governor ended his presidential campaign.

More than six in 10 Wisconsin voters, 62 percent, do not want Walker to run for a third term as governor in 2018, according to the results of a new Marquette University Law Poll out Wednesday. Just 35 percent said he should seek a third term.

Walker's approval rating slid to a new low: 37 percent, with 59 percent of voters disapproving.

If Walker had stayed in the presidential race, just 28 percent of Republicans said they would vote for him in the state's primary, while 55 percent said they would vote for another GOP candidate.

Donald Trump appeared to have benefited the most from Walker ending his campaign, jumping 9 points from last month's Marquette poll, to 20 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson followed with 16 percent, along with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 14 percent and former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina at 11 percent. Other candidates polled below 10 percent.

In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 42 percent to 30 percent, slight decreases for both from last month's poll. Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet announced whether he will run, is at 17 percent.

The poll was conducted Sept. 24-28, surveying 803 registered voters in the state via cellphones and landlines with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. The margin of error for the subsample of the 321 Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters is plus or minus 6.5 percentage points, while the margin of error for the 394 Democratic voters is plus or minus 5.9 percentage points.