The effort to move the 2020 primary is widely seen as helping improve the election chances of conservative-backed state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly, who would be up for election for the first time in the April 2020 election. Walker appointed Kelly to replace retiring Justice David Prosser in 2016.

Many of the local clerks who run Wisconsin’s elections have concluded it would be impossible to hold the presidential primary in March because it would schedule three statewide elections in a span of just three months.

Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, a Democrat, said Thursday that if a recount were needed for the February spring primary or potential March presidential primary, it would “categorically squash any possibility of this triple election cycle being feasible.”

At least 60 of Wisconsin’s 72 county clerks oppose holding the presidential primary in March, McDonell wrote on social media Friday.

Citing the concerns of local clerks, Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, said he has concerns with moving the presidential primary to March.

“Having it in March just doesn’t work,” Olsen said. “If I was a betting man, I don’t think we’re going to do it in the Senate.”