Sixteen years ago, Scott Walker had some choice words for the woman he could wind up facing in the 2016 presidential election.
In a 1999 interview on Milwaukee radio, Walker remarked that when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton speaks in public about various policy issues her poll numbers “take a major dive.”
Walker, then a Wisconsin state representative from Wauwatosa, also told the “Bob and Brian” show that, on the other side of the spectrum, her poll numbers tended to rise when she was “not talking about much” or when “people feel sympathetic” for her marital situation following the Lewinsky scandal.
“Her poll numbers do very very well when she’s not talking about much,” Walker told “Brian and Bob.” “And when, quite frankly, when people feel sympathetic for her having to be married to Bill. And when she’s talking about policy — for example when she talked about health care a few years back, her numbers take a major dive.”
Walker went on to talk about how she couldn’t take anything for granted during her U.S. Senate campaign in New York after Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1984, lost to then-Rep. Chuck Schumer in the 1998 senatorial primary. Schumer would go on to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Al D’Amato.
Walker has remained largely silent since Clinton announced her 2016 bid on Sunday, except for two tweets he sent out after her announcement.
As Secretary of State @HillaryClinton was the architect of the failed foreign policy we’re seeing executed by President Obama today. -SKW
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) April 12, 2015
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