“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then — now we got we to clean that back up.”
This is, um, not how things work? All the “bad air” doesn’t move en masse. And it certainly doesn’t all move in a direct line from China to the United States where we, uh, clean it back up.
For Walker, who is running against Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, this nonsensical answer on climate change is in keeping with a number of self-created controversies he’s faced recently.
All of these incidents make clear what a massive gamble Republicans made when they lined up behind Walker’s candidacy.
That gamble looks worse with each passing day. Walker is struggling mightily to adjust to the pace and scrutiny that comes with being a Senate nominee in one of the marquee races in the country this fall.
The Point: Walker was always a major risk for Republicans to take in a seat considered essential to their hopes of winning back the Senate majority. But I’m not even sure the most cynical Republicans thought he would be this bad on the campaign trail.