“Fading in the polls Scott Walker aims to attract Trump voters,” by Jenna Johnson and Sean Sullivan: “Scott Walker has sought to reassure jittery donors and other supporters this week that he can turn around a swift decline in the polls in Iowa and elsewhere by going on the attack and emphasizing his conservatism on key issues. In a conference call, one-on-one conversations and at a Tuesday lunch, the Wisconsin governor and darling of anti-union conservatives told backers that the campaign is shifting to a more aggressive posture and will seek to tap into the anti-establishment fervor fueling the rise of Donald Trump and other outsider candidates…Walker said the campaign would strive to do better in three areas: protest, passion and policy. ‘We need to step it up and remind people that we didn’t just take on the unions and Democrats, we had to take on my own party establishment, those who did not want to take on the status quo,’ Walker said on the call…He added later: ‘One thing I heard about the first debate was: ‘You were fine, you did no wrong, but people want to feel the passion’…Walker now intends to focus his energy primarily on challengers from the right — a constituency that is particularly important in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, which aides view as a must-win contest for him.”
Alan: In the most recent poll, Donald Trump leads with 24% followed by Jeb Bush with 13%.
Then Ben Carson at 9% followed by Rubio and Walker tied at 8%.
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