Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may have been having a bad week in some ways but a new Texas poll has him pulling even with fellow conservative favorite Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
According to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, “Cruz’s 25 percentage-point lead over Walker in October has vanished: The Texan won the support of 20 percent of the state’s registered voters to Walker’s 19 percent — a statistical tie. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and author Ben Carson were tied at 9 percent, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was next at 8 percent.”
“Scott Walker is clearly breathing some of the oxygen on the right. The big takeaway here is that Ted Cruz is still a giant among Texas Republicans — but he is not invulnerable,” said Jim Henson, co-director of the poll and head of the Texas Politics Project at UT-Austin. “Conservatives are willing to look at another candidate who fits that profile.”
Walker caught some heat in the last few days for saying he did not know if President Obama was a Christian, after he did not comment when former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, at a dinner event for Walker that “I do not believe that the president loves America.”
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