MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Latest on the Marquette University Law School poll (all times local):
1:15 p.m.
President Donald Trump’s approval rating is inching up in Wisconsin.
The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday showed Trump’s approval rating at 44 percent, up from 43 percent in the last Marquette poll in March. It was at 41 percent in the June 2017 Marquette poll.
Trump’s disapproval rating was 50 percent, the same as in March.
The poll continued to show a stark partisan divide over his job performance, with 87 percent of Republicans approving and 93 percent of Democrats disapproving. Most independents - 51 percent to 41 percent - disapproved of his work.
The latest poll surveyed 800 registered voters between June 13 and Sunday, before reports of Trump’s administration separating children from parents who cross the border illegally began building. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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12:55 p.m.
Gov. Scott Walker’s approval rating is rising a bit as the campaign season ramps up.
The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday showed Walker’s approval rating at 49 percent. That’s up 2 percentage points from the last Marquette poll in March.
His disapproval rate was at 47 percent, unchanged from March. Three percent didn’t know or didn’t have an opinion.
The poll surveyed 800 registered voters between June 13 and Sunday. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points
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12:37 p.m.
The 10 Democrats running for governor still aren’t well-known among Wisconsin voters.
That’s according to a new Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday.
The poll found that more than 60 percent of respondents don’t know or haven’t heard enough about any of the candidates. Public schools Superintendent Tony Evers was the best known of all them; 61 percent said they didn’t know enough about him. The rest of the field was all above 70 percent.
In the Republican U.S. Senate primary, 69 percent said they hadn’t heard about Kevin Nicholson. Seventy-two percent said they didn’t know about Leah Vukmir.
The poll surveyed 800 registered voters between June 13 and Sunday. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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