Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary fight Wednesday, in Pence’s latest break in position from the billionaire businessman.
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She says McCain is a good entry point to getting the rest of the GOP to withdraw support.
“Sen. McCain has proved he is a maverick”, he said.
Ryan has disagreed with Trump several times – including over his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. and his remarks about a Hispanic federal judge – and during the weekend indirectly took issue with Trump’s belittling of the parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, killed in Iraq in 2004.
Ryan, in a radio interview with Wisconsin’s The Jerry Bader Show on Thursday, said that Trump has “had some pretty odd run since the convention”.
Donald Trump will not endorse House Speaker Paul D. Ryan or Senator John McCain in forthcoming elections.
It certainly seems, based on his phrasing, that Ryan has all but given up on the Republican party winning the presidential election with Trump as the nominee, and is telling donors they need to move their focus elsewhere. He’s a strong conservative leader.
After Harwood, a CNBC correspondent, tweeted that, he said Trump’s campaign spokesman Jason Miller said, “The idea that Paul Manafort’s mailing it in is completely erroneous”.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Donald Trump said he was not going to back Paul Ryan in the Wisconsin primary next week, nor would he be backing John McCain in his primary in Arizona later in the month. “And we are confident in a victory next week regardless”.
The feud between Ryan and Trump was again put on full display early this week after Trump declined to endorse Ryan, who faces a longshot challenger in next week’s Republican primary election for Ryan’s House seat. Kelly Ayotte and the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same-Nice!” “For me, if our party has a future, we have to change that trajectory and lead by example”. We need fighters in this country.
Pence replied that “sometimes things don’t always come out like you mean” and added that he and Trump “have different styles”, which shouldn’t be “confused with differences in conviction”.
And Sally Bradshaw, who wrote the post-2012 report calling for unity and tolerance in the Republican Party, said she’s leaving the GOP.
Yet it was not clear that, even as Trump found another line to cross and another political norm to defy, any Republicans would rescind their support.
For Republicans, renouncing Trump might not yield much benefit beyond ensuring more headlines connecting them to Trump, something most want to avoid.
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“The commander in chief of the United States military is the leader of one of the most diverse military’s on Earth”, Terani said at a news conference in a grove of trees just north of the Capitol.
