While offering to step down as co-chairman of the Republican convention, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted that the Republican Party is disunified.
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“Whatever Paul Ryan does with regard to the presidential campaign, and I fully expect he will eventually endorse Donald Trump as the nominee, it won’t be because of any idle, ridiculous threats from Trump, Palin or any surrogate that comes through and pops off”, Fraley said.
Speaker Ryan announced Thursday that he was not ready to support Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Speaker Ryan is the highest-ranking member of the GOP, and his lack of support for Trump shows that the Republican Party is in the midst of an existential crisis.
Among the biggest questions ahead of Trump’s private meeting with Ryan is whether Trump will call for Ryan’s ouster as chairman at the Republican convention in Cleveland this July, if Ryan refuses to back him. “I’ll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention”, Mr. Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an interview on Monday. Palin said Sunday, May 8, 2016, that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s statement that he isn’t ready to embrace Trump “was not a wise decision of his”. This has led to the virtual extinction of the GOP’s once strong moderate Republican wing.
“I think this is a time for unity”.
Mr. Ryan (46), is scheduled to meet Mr. Trump on Thursday.
Ryan and Trump are set to meet this next week, and Priebus wants them to patch things up.
Scot Ross, executive director of the the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said he thinks Ryan is trying to protect himself from further political fallout from Trump’s campaign. “I wouldn’t want to be a burden on the ticket, and I realize in many, many eyes, I would be that burden”. And that is, as I have said, debt, open borders, illegal immigrants coming on over and receiving freebies left and right, instead of our own people, especially our vets, being able to receive the benefits that they have earned, growing government, that intrusion that the failed liberal agenda so perpetuates.
Palin, a Trump supporter, says she’ll work to defeat Ryan in the August primary.
She explained, “And when we can conclude that the plank of the platform is fine as is, then we can start talking about what people are really concerned about in this nation, concerned about in this election”.
“I will give you a very solid answer, if that happens, about one minute after that happens”.
Nehlen’s upset effort won’t include attending the Wisconsin Republican Party convention this weekend in Green Bay. I like Paul Ryan. We all remember the Koch prank call to Scott Walker many years ago.
Hillary Clinton, Trump’s likely Democratic opponent, seized on divisions over his candidacy by calling him “a loose cannon”, a view she said was shared by Republicans.
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Ryan said Monday that his stance on Trump was not “about me”. “I think I’m going to win the race either way”.
