“And the American people, they’ve got good judgment, they have good instincts, as long as they as have good information”.
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Trump for his part fired back with a statement saying he, Trump, was “not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda”.
Ryan’s declaration this week that he wasn’t yet ready to embrace Trump sent shockwaves through the Republican establishment that Trump is now leaning on for help as he transitions from the primary season to a general election campaign, most likely against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
March 15, 2016: Asked at a news conference at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters whether whether he would support the eventual nominee, whoever it may be, Ryan said he would, adding: “My position hasn’t changed on that”.
“All of those things will be much better under Trump than under Hillary Clinton”, Walker said.
“Any person who is standing to be president who thinks that he can handle all the foreign policy himself or herself is showing both an arrogance and ignorance that is astonishing”, said former Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe, who now serves as a senior trans-Atlantic fellow for the German Marshall Fund and who signed the anti-Trump letter.
Ryan is a leading advocate for free trade and his support for deals negotiated by the Obama administration with Pacific nations and other partners is distinctly at odds with Trump’s vow to dismantle or renegotiate such agreements.
He insisted, however, that no Republicans should support Clinton – as several have pledged to do after Trump’s rivals dropped out.
Trump also has received a cool reception from the 2012 GOP standard-bearer, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose vice presidential running mate was Ryan, and former President George W. Bush. “Many people aren’t sure what the Trump agenda is yet”.
“What we know right now is obviously concerning”, Mike Shields, who heads the Congressional Leadership Fund, a political group that helps House GOP candidates, said of Trump’s remarks in an interview Wednesday.
Ryan is not the only one to have aired opposition to Trump.
Democrats are generally steering clear of the Republican infighting, letting the party’s leaders tear at each other. “And I hope to”.
Trump has flouted a number of conservative tenets in his campaign. “And I want to”, in comments on CNN’s “The Lead”. Many of Trump’s policies are neither conservative nor constitutional, and they are a setback to the decadeslong efforts Ryan has made to grow the party with new voters.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump puts on a miners hard hat during a rally in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, May 5, 2016.
Even in an election cycle that’s exposed extreme and very public divisions within the GOP, Ryan’s decision to withhold his support from Trump was remarkable, as the GOP’s top elected leader, second in line to the presidency, turned his back on his own party’s presumptive nominee.
Ryan: Well, to be perfectly candid with you, Jake, I’m just not ready to do that at this point. That committee is being chaired by a different Steve King, who is Wisconsin committeeman on the Republican National Committee. “So the question is, ‘What can you do to unify all wings of the party to go forward?'”
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“I said he would be”, Priebus emphasized on Thursday, acknowledging Kasich was still in the race at the time-though mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination on the first ballot.
