This isn’t the first time Walker has floated the Florida governor’s name as a possible veep. 2016 Scott Walker again toys with Marco Rubio for veep pick

Scott Walker doesn’t think a Walker-Rubio ticket would be so bad.

“I like Marco a lot. I certainly agree with him a lot on national defense issues,” the Wisconsin governor said on CNN’s “ Politics Outside with Insiders.”


Walker said that many of his supporters want him to tap Rubio.

“Of people who have made suggestions to me, that is probably 90 to 10 the suggestion people make,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Walker has floated the Florida senator’s name as a possible veep.

Last month, before Walker had officially announced his candidacy, he told Bloomberg Politics that he and Rubio both frequently hear they should combine forces, maybe even before the Iowa caucuses in February – though he did say they might have “arm-wrestle” over who gets the top of the ticket.

Some, like Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist close to former Florida governor Jeb Bush, have speculated that Walker’s move is a power one — a suggestion that Rubio isn’t up for the presidency.

“He’s sending several messages — give the impression he’s on top; acknowledge that he would be running against a historical figure in the first woman candidate and needs some diversity; telegraph Marco that they are allies; and in a way belittle Marco,” Navarro told The Washington Post earlier this month.