Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says President Barack Obama’s Attorney General nominee, Loretta Lynch, is unfit to be the nation’s top lawyer because of her support for executive amnesty and other positions she’s taken, the governor’s spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski tells Breitbart News.
“Given Loretta Lynch’s failure to commit to protect Americans from the president’s lawless executive overreach, that even he said nearly two dozen times, she is not fit to serve as the nation’s Attorney General,” Kukowski said in an email.
Walker is in New Hampshire,the first in the nation primary state,on Friday, meeting with—among other—former Sen. Scott Brown(R-MA)—who narrowly lost to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen(D-NH) in the general election last year.
While Walker doesn’t have a vote in the U.S. Senate,his public opposition to Lynch’s nomination could have massive implications as the vote heads to the Senate floor next week. Even the four Republicans who have stated they intend to support Lynch—Sens. Jeff Flake R-AZ),Lindsey Graham(R-SC),Orrin Hatch(R-UT) and Susan Collins(R-ME)—might not want to oppose Walker’s position, along with the position of Sen. John McCain(R-AZ),the 2008 GOP presidential nominee.
Walker is polling at or near the top of most early presidential polls after an explosive entrance onto the national political stage in January with a speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit hosted by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Citizens United in Des Moines. He’s been hiring up key staff and touring early presidential states while quickly getting more involved in national political battles,and is emerging—along with Sens. Rand Paul(R-KY) and Ted Cruz(R-TX)—as one of the credible Republican alternatives to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the GOP presidential primaries for 2016.
Bush has not taken a position on Lynch’s nomination at this time,and a spokesman for him told Breitbart News he’d check with the governor on the matter but hasn’t gotten back before publication of this story...
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