Walker fills out digital team

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) is continuing to staff up for a potential White House bid by adding high-profile GOP strategist Liz Mair to his communications staff, according to CNN.  

Mair and her consulting firm will help take the reins of the online communications work for Walker’s political action committee, Our American Revival, which is his primary national political vehicle until he decides whether to announce a bid. 

{mosads}Mair has experience working with a number of potential 2016 candidates. She helped Walker overcome a 2012 recall effort spurred by controversial union laws. She also advised Carly Fiorina during her 2010 bid for Senate in California and then-Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) during his 2012 presidential run. She’s also counseled Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Walker is currently battling former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush for the lead in the shadow Republican presidential primary. A RealClearPolitics average of recent polling shows Walker with a slight advantage over Bush of less than half a percentage point. 

The Wisconsin governor has continued to raise his national profile ahead of a presidential decision. Walker spent the beginning of the weekend in New Hampshire meeting with voters in the early primary state. Later that day, he traveled to Washington to speak at the Gridiron Dinner, where he joked that he might not be able to make it through four years in the White House, because he dropped out of college before graduating.