Walker touts state GOP leadership

Republicans at the national level should emulate state Republican lawmakers, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) said Sunday during CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“Americans are hungry for … leadership,” especially the kind being shown at the state level, he said.

Walker pointed to healthcare as an example of the Republican leadership at the state level.

{mosads}“I think there is a much better market-driven solution” than the system mandated by President Obama’s healthcare law, he said, and state lawmakers are the ones that “have the courage to stand up and do it.”

Walker contrasted national Republican politicians with state Republican politicians, encouraging the former to be more like the latter.

State Republican politicians “talk about things that are relevant and optimistic,” he said.

“We focus obsessively on helping fix the economy and the private sector and helping put in place a balanced budget.”

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