>> NOW FOR APRIL
VOTERS GROW MORE UNHAPPY AND
PRIMARY CANDIDATES AIM TO MAKE
THEIR MARK, ACCORDING THE LATEST
MARQUETTE LAW SCHOOL POLL.
POLLSTER CHARLES FRANKLIN JOINS
US TO OVER HIS LATEST RESULTS.
THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
>> GOOD TO BE HERE.
LET'S LOOK AT DEMOCRATIC U.S.
SENATE.
MANDELA BARNES HAS SLIPPED SINCE
YOUR LAST POLL IN FEBRUARY BY
FOUR POINTS AND ALEX LASRY AND
SARAH GODLEWSKI HAVE GAINED A
LITTLE. BARNES HAS NAME
RECOGNITION AS LT. GOV. BUT
LASRY AND GODLEWSKI ARE ALL OVER
THE AIR-WAVES WITH TV ADS. DO
YOU SUSPECT AS THE MONEY POURS
IN THIS WILL BE THE TREND? MIGHT
BE EXPECTED NEARLY HALF OF
THEY ARE THE TWO ON-AIR BARNES
AND NELSON HAVE NOT BEEN
ADVERTISING YET.
I DO THINK THIS IS A GOOD
ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE POWER OF
IT WASV TIEZING.
>> YOUR POLLING SHOWS NEARLY
HALF WERE UNDECIDED, WHEN DO
PEOPLE GET SERIOUS?
>> I THINK THAT IS ANOTHER PART.
SO MANY VOTERS SITTING OUT THERE
TO BE PICKED UP BY ANYBODY.
WE SAW THIS IN 2018 WHEN WE HAD
A BIG GUBERNATORIAL FIELD.
AS LATE AS JUNE A LOT UNDECIDED.
PRIMARY NOT UNTIL AUGUST 9TH.
I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED STILL
HIGH IN JUNE.
REBECCA KLEEFISCH HOLDS HER
LEAD...BUT YOUR POLL WENT INTO
THE FIELD BEFORE TIM MICHELS
ANNOUNCED HIS RUN. IS HE GOING
TO BENEFIT FROM NAME RECOGNITION
FROM HIS LAST RUNS FOR OFFICE,
OR IS THE ELECTORATE'S MEMORY
SHORT?
>> I THINK THE MEMORY IS SHORT.
HE ENTERED THE RACE AFTER WE
FINISHED OUR POLL.
OBVIOUSLY WASN'T INCLUDED.
ONE GOOD THING FIRST, WE DON'T
SEE ANY SHIFT APPRECIABLY IN THE
REMEMBER CAN GUBERNATORIAL
FEBRUARY TILL NOW.
CHANGE OF TWO POINTS FOR BOTH
TOP CANDIDATES.
WE DO HAVE ONE VIRTUE, THIS
SHOWS WHERE THINGS STOOD BEFORE
MICHAELS ENTERED.
IN JUNE WE'LL SEE THE IMPACT.
REPUBLICAN RACE HAS HALF
UNDECIDED.
MICHAELS IN A POSITION TO TELL
US WHERE HE PICKS UP UNDECIDED
AND VOTES SHIFT AMONG THE
ACCOUNTS.
>> THAT WILL BE INTERESTING TO
SEE.
HEARKENING BACK TO THE 2020
ELECTION -- AS THE G-O-P IS
KEEPING THAT ALIVE WITH
DIRECTION FROM THE TOP AND
DONALD TRUMP -- A MAJOR PARTISAN
SPLIT AS ALSO MIGHT BE EXPECTED
HERE. !5-PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS
ARE VERY CONFIDENT IN THE
RESULTS COMPARED TO 85-PERCENT
OF DEMOCRATS. I'M SURPRISED
THERE ARE 15-PERCENT OF
REPUBLICAN VOTERS SURVEYED THAT
ARE THAT CONFIDENT?
>> CERTAINLY THE RHETORIC IS
AWFULLY STRONG.
WHEN YOU PUT CONFIDENT AND SOME
WHAT CONFIDENT ON ONE HAND AND
NOT TOO CONFIDENT ON THE OTHER,
TWO-THIRDS CONFIDENT, ONE-THIRD
NOT CONFIDENT.
IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, MIRROR
IMAGE.
TWO-THIRDS CONFIDENT, ONE-THIRTY
NOT CONFIDENT.
>> ANOTHER OF YOUR POLL QUESTIONS
FOUND THAT NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF
REPUBLICAN RESPONDENTS HAVEN'T
HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT THE MICHAEL
>> WITH TWO-THIRDS OF
REPUBLICANS LACK CONFIDENCE AND
ALL THE ATTENTION REMEMBER CANS
HAVE GIVEN TO THE GABE LMAN
INVESTIGATION, STUNNING
TWO-THIRDS OF REPUBLICANS AREN'T
EVEN ABLE TO SAY THEY KNOW
ENOUGH TO HAVE AN OPINION OF THE
INVESTIGATION.
50% OF DEMOCRATS DON'T HAVE AN
OPINION.
STILL MORE LACK OF ATTENTION TO
THE MOST PROMINENT, CURRENT
INVESTIGATION OF THE ELECTION
AND THE FOLKS IN GENERAL MOST
WORRIED ABOUT THE ELECTION
GENERALLY AREN'T PAYING MUCH
ATTENTION.
>> THERE IS SOME HIGHER AMONG
THOSE MOST SKEPTICAL OF THE
ELECTION.
THAT MAKES SENSE.
I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T
UNDERSTAND THE TERM "DESERT FIE"
THEY MIGHT REASONABLY WANT TO
DES
DESERTY FIE.
AS IT HAD BEEN COVERED IN THE
NEWS.
THAT TERM MAYBE JUST NOT CLEAR
ENOUGH AND PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE
DEFINED THE TERM IN THE CONTEXT.
>> THAT EXPLAIN AS LITTLE BIT.
HERE IS A HEADLINE, TOO.
THOSE LEAST CONFIDENT
GABLEMAN EIN THE ACCURACY OF THE
2020 ARE MORE ENTHUSIASTIC TO
--
>> THOSE LEAST CONFIDENT ARE
LIKE 20 POINTS MORE ENTHUSIASTIC
ABOUT VOTING THAN REPUBLICANS
WHO ARE CONFIDENT IN THE
ELECTION OUTCOME.
THAT PROBABLY MEANS THE PRIMARY
VOTERS ARE GOING TO BE MORE
HEAVILY TILTED TO THOSE
SKEPTICAL OF THE ELECTION.
YOU SEE CANDIDATES HAVING TO
DEAL WITH THAT IN THEIR
CAMPAIGNS.
MAYBE THOSE REPUBLICANS WHO
DON'T AGREE THE ELECTION WAS
STOLEN, MAY NOT BE AS
ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SUPPORTING AN
ELECTION SKEPTICAL CANDIDATE WHO
CARRIES THAT INTO THE NOVEMBER
ELECTION THIS IS SOMETHING WORTH
WATCHING ABOUT HOW THIS DIVISION
WITHIN THE PARTY AND ONE-THIRD
OF REPUBLICANS ARE PRETTY
CONFIDENT.
DOES THAT HURT THEM IN THE FALL
EVEN IF IT MEANS IN THE PRIMARY?
SKEPTICS HAVE THE UPPER HAND.