Traditionally, when politicians would endorse a candidate, they’d defend that candidate from attacks.
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“What we talk about is where we are four years later and how we ended up with Donald Trump as the nominee”, Chen said. Ryan even promised to speak up when he has differences. He replied, “Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment”.
[In Reversal, House Backs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Measure] Republicans argue the Maloney amendment was a “poison pill” by Democrats because they pushed for the amendment to be adopted but didn’t support the overall measure. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Trump advocate, Sen. Good riddance? Not so fast; Trump can’t keep burning support.
Ryan explained the hard political situation he was in, as the leader of House Republicans.
“I do not believe the military will carry out any order that goes contrary to the law”, he said.
Decisions by prominent Republicans to publicly condemn Trump’s comments suggest possible differences in ideology and politics between Trump and his close associates.
Now, it should be said that Trump brings this on himself. With Wednesday’s decision, the Wisconsin Republican is taking steps to tighten his grip on the chamber, largely by shutting out Democrats.
Ryan already held a press conference on Tuesday ostensibly on poverty, and “instead faced a barrage of questions regarding Trump’s remarks about the Mexican heritage of the judge overseeing lawsuits against Trump University”.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But that’s not the campaign that Donald Trump has been running, is it? And on two forms, he incorrectly said he voted in the city of Delavan, when he actually votes in the town of Delavan.
“He has to make his own decision”, she said.
“I know he wants to unify the party, but I don’t know that it can be unified given that we have a very divisive nominee”, said Lanhee Chen, Romney’s former foreign policy adviser and professor at Stanford. I don’t know what’s in his heart. “But it’s political bull –“.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Ryan’s plan means nothing as long as Republicans “embrace the staggering recklessness of a GOP standard-bearer who has called for the U.S.to torture prisoners and murder the families of suspected terrorists”. Ted Cruz. Only a few hours earlier, he was telling reporters that Cruz’s father may have had a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Megan McArdle is a Bloomberg View columnist writing on economics, business and public policy.
