But I think what is required is that we unify this party.
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Ryan’s position had so far made him the highest-level Republican official to reject Trump’s campaign since the NY billionaire developer won IN on Tuesday and forced his last two competitors out of the race.
“I am going to certainly endorse the Republican nominee, and obviously it looks like that will be Mr. Trump”, said Johnson, who faces Democrat Russ Feingold in November.
Even with the Republican nomination seemingly locked up, Donald Trump remains radioactive to the party’s top national security strategists, who warn that his “incoherent” approach to world affairs could prove risky for the United States.
Now, just two days after Trump won a decisive victory in IN that forced his remaining rivals, Texas Sen. “I’m not there right now”, Ryan told CNN in an interview.
“We need a standardbearer that can unify all – all conservatives and the wings of the party – and then go to the country with an appealing agenda”, he said. “As the presumptive nominee, he now has the opportunity and the obligation to unite our party around our goals”.
Trump says he’s meeting with Ryan next week, possibly on Wednesday.
Calling himself “the king of debt”, Trump said he would use his business skills to revisit terms of the more than $19 trillion in debt owed by the U.S. “And people are sending a message to Washington that we need to learn from and listen to”.
Don’t add House Speaker Paul Ryan to the list of Republicans who are, even reluctantly, backing de facto GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“The GOP divide over Ryan’s decision not to board the Trump Train reflects the broader civil war raging within the Grand Old Party as it prepares to coronate a billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star with zero political experience and a questionable conservative record”, The Hill reported.
Declaring victory at Trump Tower Tuesday night, Donald Trump set his sights on fixing what the last year’s primary has broken.
Ryan will serve as the convention’s chairman, presiding over portions of the proceedings that will elevate Trump to the official status of nominee. “I stood on the stage in Cleveland and said that I would support the nominee…” The GOP’s control of the Senate is at risk, and Trump could also be a down-ballot drag on several House contests as well. He’s constantly out there talking about his agenda.
Ryan, R-Wis., and McConnell have criticized Trump’s comments. But unifying isn’t telling a wide swath of people, many of whom you’ve been insulting as “hacks” and “losers” for months, to “get on board”, or else.
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Just before Ryan’s stunning statement, Trump attempted to make that kind of appeal – in his own eyebrow-raising way. Ryan rebuked Trump for plans to bar Muslims from the country and when he was slow to disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The party belongs to Trump now, just as Rome belonged to the barbarians, and GOP politicians have to decide whether to fall in line or take up arms against the new order.
