It is that agenda which the speaker says he and other Republicans are setting that he sees being served by a Trump presidency. “I think many potential presidential aspirants want Trump to fail without totally destroying the Republican brand”, said Brace.
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One of Donald Trump’s top House backers is applauding Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to throw his support behind the presumptive GOP nominee.
“I am where I have always been”, Martinez told The New Mexican Thursday. “It was never plausible that a speaker would preside over your convention and not endorse you”.
Ryan and Trump met once in person in mid-May when the billionaire crisscrossed Capitol Hill for meetings with House and Senate leaders. “There is just no way that could have been helped by having that division”, he said. “I had friends wishing I would”, Mr Ryan said. Im very pleased, he said in an interview.
“I’ll be voting for @realDonaldTrump this fall”. He was taken a little bit by storm because my situation was supposed to go the convention..
He had expressed concern about Mr Trump’s tone on the campaign trail and some of his policies.
Ryan is betting those differences pale in comparison to the policy areas where he and Trump appear likely to find common ground. “I really didn’t feel any pressure, other than my goal is to make sure that we’re unified so that we’re at full strength in the fall so we can win the election”. “But the reality is, on the issues that make up our agenda, we have more common ground than disagreement”, he said.
“Since 2000, the number of people on food stamps in New Mexico has tripled”, Trump told supporters. Additionally, Trump’s proposals to ban all Muslim travel into the United States and the candidate’s brusque comments regarding minorities, women and the disabled gave Ryan pause.
“It’s not just a choice of two people, but of two visions for America”, Ryan concluded the column.
“Donald Trump can help us make it a reality”, Ryan said.
“We’re not playing word games, feel free to call it an endorsement”, one of Ryan’s advisers, Brendan Buck tweeted. “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for”.
The two have spoken numerous times, Ryan wrote in the column.
But it was clear there was still some distance between them.
Ryan has criticized Trump during the primary campaign.
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Trump would now like Martinez’s endorsement, he said Thursday in a phone interview with a New Mexico newspaper reporter, signaling a truce in a public spat with the country’s only Latina governor and chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association that had raised questions about Trump’s desire to unify the party. House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Thursday that he would no longer withhold his support for the party’s presumptive nominee. “I’m confident he will help turn the House GOP’s agenda into laws”, he tweeted. More specifically, Norquist wanted a president who would use those digits to sign Paul Ryan’s austerity budget. His tax plan includes rate reductions for the middle class that far exceed Ryan’s past proposals, and which independent analyses suggest would swell the federal budget deficit far more than Ryan’s would.
