Walker chose Senator Jeff Sessions, an arch-conservative from Alabama, as his running mate in order to unite the GOP and provide experience to the ticket. In the general election, Walker ran on tax cuts, repealing and replacing Obamacare, and a strong defense. Walker, unlike Trump, supported free trade, but called for fairer trade deals and a renegotiation of NAFTA and TPP.
Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience and promised to continue Barack Obama's moderate policies. Clinton attacked Scott Walker for cutting the salaries and benefits of state employees, refusing a $810 million award from the federal Department of Transportation to build a high speed railroad line from Madison to Milwaukee, and opposing abortion in cases of rape.
Despite Trump's strong showing in the primaries, the majority of Republicans coalesced around Walker, who obtained the endorsement of Trump. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, faced the unwillingness of many Sanders voters to support her in the general election, although a large amount saw Clinton as way more palatable than the run of the mill conservative Walker.
Even with these issues, Clinton led in the polls throughout the campaign, as Walker was seen as an unexciting and uncharismatic candidate. He shocked pundits by winning the election with 284 electoral votes versus 253 for Clinton, who won the popular vote by 500,000 votes.
The tipping point state was Ohio, which Walker won by a margin of 16,000 votes; Clinton kept most of the blue wall, including Michigan and Pennsylvania. Walker and Sessions were inaugurated on January 20, 2017, and began lowering taxes and restricting abortion (within the confines of Roe) and immigration.
Imo I think he would do better than trump in the election. Trump was very controversial, so he definitely pushed a lot of people away who might’ve otherwise shown up for a different republican candidate.
Like I said, Walker was pretty uncharismatic and uninspiring, so he'd certainly do worse.
As a Wisconsinite, in this scenario we would be happy to share the pain of this man to the whole country.
“Now YOU get to deal with him too, fuckers!” - every resident of Wisconsin in this timeline
He's not winning Colorado.
Before Trump, Colorado was winnable for republicans. It’s now a blue state because trump’s populism repels suburban college educated voters
Colorado was getting pretty blue by the time the 2016 election came around
He was born there.
So? Donald Trump was born in New York. He didn't win because he didn't have New York values.
CO was significantly closer in 2016.
Wasnt colorado a blue state since 2008 with obama?
Yes, but Obama won it by just 5% in 2012
"Just 5%"
As a Coloradan who worked campaigns in the 2016 cycle, no, Republicans could not have won the state by that point.
Fair enough
He probably wins Michigan and Pennsylvania too
Doubt he doesn't have that rust belt appeal that trump did
Maybe Pennsylvania but not Michigan
Rick Snyder won Michigan in 2014
He'd win places like bucks and Chester but would underperform in the rurals and old steel towns as well in places like Northampton,Erie and Macomb
Gotta think of trump the Racist rapist with close ties to Epstein beat Hillary images a blank guy sure he is boring and uncharismatic but he not trump he land slides
Scot walker is not winning Wisconsin in 2016.
It would've made more sense to use Kasich, or Rubio. Walker didn't even get a single delegate in OTL.
That's because he dropped out before the primaries started.
Still, I don't imagine he'd have that much success if he competed in the primaries.
Walker would not even win Wisconsin
Scott Walker did a lot of damage to Wisconsin during his term. He would have been a neo-reaganite president and probably would have set the country back quite a bit, though admittedly less far back than trump
Hot take as a Wisconsinite, he loses his home state and NV and HRC wins. He was not popular here by this point and was on his way to losing reelection to Tony Evers. He benefited from the god awful environment for Dems in 2010 and had a very weak challenger in 2014. The second he had to face a replacement level challenger in a less friendly than 2010 and 2014 environment he folded like a cheap suit. Same as he did irl in his presidential campaign.
In my TL, Scott Walker was reelected in 2020, defeating Bernie Sanders because Howard Schultz ran as a third-party candidate.
He probably wins Michigan and Pennsylvania , but with different coalitions than Trump, he would win through the suburbs like Chester and bucks county.
Yeah, he would get the Ron Johnson/Pat Toomey coalition that won them their Senate races in 2016.