“It’s not just in Paul Ryan’s district”, Manafort said.
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“We are a party where the grassroots Republican primary voter selects our nominee and that’s as it should be and that it what it is”, Ryan explained. My dad would back McCain, Ryan The Trail 2016: Endorsements musical chairs Pence declines to endorse McCain, Ayotte MORE (R-N.H.) amid their primary challenges.
Ryan re-affirmed his support for Trump, saying he wants to respect the voters who nominated him.
Pence also told reporters that he sees “eye to eye” with Donald Trump on their views of the Khan family, the current iteration of the Muslim ban and Russia’s alleged role in the hacking of DNC emails. And I think this is just a scorched earth policy against Donald Trump in order to try save Paul Ryan.
I support him as a speaker and I know after next week I’m going to be supporting him as a candidate for president too – I mean…
We need very, very strong leadership.
Ryan was perhaps alluding to a series of controversies that have rocked the Republican nominee’s campaign recently-like Trump’s reckless remarks about Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who lost their son in combat in 2004, and Trump’s decision not to endorse Ryan.
“I’ve never been there with John McCain because I’ve always felt that he should have done a much better job for the vets”, Trump told the newspaper Tuesday.
As for Ayotte, who is running for a second Senate term and skipped the Republican National Convention, Trump said: “You have a Kelly Ayotte who doesn’t want to talk about Trump, but I’m beating her in the polls by a lot”.
Ryan says it’s “distressing” that that’s not what the conversation is about.
“I don’t think Wisconsinites take kindly to this”, he said.
The first noticeable split between nominee and running mate came during the Democratic convention, when Trump encouraged Russian Federation to find and make public missing emails deleted by Hillary Clinton from the private servers she used while secretary of state. “He said he’s going to work with Paul Ryan”.
Pence criticized President Barack Obama’s recent comments that Trump lacks the judgment to be president.
Some staffers for Trump’s campaign have also voiced their frustration with the White House hopeful, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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“There’s been some cleanup”, said Curt Smith, a longtime Pence friend who runs the socially conservative Indiana Family Institute. Veterans groups called the comments insulting to all prisoners of war, but Trump brushed off calls for an apology.
