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Capitol Notes: Walker Signals Support For Moving Presidential Primary Date

Gov. Scott Walker avoided the public eye in the week following the election, in which he narrowly lost to Democratic challenger Tony Evers. But late last week, he surfaced. 

He says he's open to moving the date of Wisconsin's presidential primary in 2020, so that it won't be held on the same day as the state Supreme Court election. The move would help conservative Justice Daniel Kelly, a Walker appointee who would be up for election to a 10-year term in April of 2020. 

It looks like a bill would be introduced in a lame duck session next month. In this week's "Capitol Notes" conversation, WUWM's Marti Mikkelson asked JR Ross of wispolitics.com about the chances of such a bill passing.

Marti was a reporter with WUWM from 1999 to 2021.