Walker: ‘Governors make much better presidents’

Scott Walker for president?

Asked whether he was considering a run for president in 2016 Sunday, the Republican governor from Wisconsin said he believed “governors make much better presidents than members of Congress.”

Governors offer a “fresh approach,” with “executive experience from outside of Washington to provide a much better alternative to the old, tired, top-down approach out of Washington, D.C,” Walker said, adding, “We need something fresh, organic from the bottom up – and that’s what you get in the states.”

Chuck Todd also asked the governor whether he'd deferred to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), considered to be a possible presidential candidate since his run for vice president in 2012.

“I love Paul Ryan. I’ve said many times before I’ll be the president of the Paul Ryan fan club, but I do think if we’re going to beat Hillary Clinton in this next election, we’re going to have a message that says Hillary Clinton is all about Washington,” Walker said.

Responding later, Democratic National Committee spokesman Michael Czin said, “we’re thrilled that Governor Walker thinks Republicans should run for president on the record of GOP governors,” calling that “wing of the GOP…every bit as broken and dysfunctional as the congressional wing of the party.”

Under Walker, Wisconsin “lags the country in job growth,” Czin said. And pointing to other GOP governors, he added, “Chris Christie’s policies have led to a record number of credit downgrades, and nearly one in five live in poverty in Rick Perry’s Texas.”