MADISON – More than half of Wisconsin voters do not want Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to seek a third term, according to a recent survey from the Marquette University Law School poll.
Fifty-five percent of voters polled in recent days by Marquette said Evers should not seek another term, while 42% said the governor should run again, according to the poll released on June 25.
Evers has not yet laid out his plans and has said he won’t announce whether he will pursue another bid for governor until after the current state budget-writing process is complete later this summer.
While Wisconsin governors are not term-limited, only former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson has been elected more than twice.
Marquette University Law School poll director Charles Franklin said past polling also showed voters largely opposed to giving a third term to former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican.
In that survey, 61% opposed the idea of Walker running for a third term, while 36% said he should run again. Walker lost to Evers in 2018.
When broken down by partisan leanings, 93% of Democrats said no to Walker and the exact same percentage of Republicans are against a third term for Evers in this poll. But Democrats are far more in favor of Evers running again than Republicans were of a third term for Walker. Sixty-nine percent of Republicans said yes while 83% of Democrats say yes to Evers today.
Britt Cudaback, spokeswoman for Evers, said in a post on X that the Democratic support for Evers’ third term shows the party faithful back the governor.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 55% in Marquette poll say Gov. Tony Evers should not seek a third term, but Dem support is high
Reporting by Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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