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Top Republicans signaled Monday that changes may be needed to a proposal to move the 2020 presidential primary date, even as they charged ahead with plans to curtail early voting that could land the state in court.

The two measures affecting elections administration are among dozens of proposals in sweeping lame-duck legislation Assembly and Senate Republicans are considering on the floor Tuesday that would strip the incoming governor and attorney general, both Democrats, of some of their powers.

Two Republican senators, Rob Cowles, of Green Bay, and Luther Olsen, of Ripon, have spoken out against one provision that would uncouple the state’s presidential primary from the April nonpartisan election and move it to March starting in 2020.

And Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, during a Capitol news conference Monday afternoon, declined to confirm whether his caucus had the votes to pass the measure.

“I wouldn’t say no,” Fitzgerald said. “I think depending on what it would look like and how you move those dates ... it depends on how you approach it.”

Gov. Scott Walker at an event at the governor’s mansion later Monday indicated to reporters he expected lawmakers to make changes to the 2020 proposal.