And very importantly toward real change.
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Reading from a sheet of paper, Trump said: “In our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our speaker of the House, Paul Ryan”.
He reiterated his support for Mr Trump hours before the endorsement – but he noted that his support was not a “blank cheque”, and pledged to speak out against the businessman’s divisive positions if necessary.
“As we watch the news today about the visit of the GOP Presidential nominee to Wisconsin, I have to ask myself, ‘Am I proud of the GOP nominee lately?’ The answer is so obvious it hurts. No”.
“I hold in the highest esteem Sen”.
“The people of this country don’t want somebody who’s going to short circuit up here”, Trump told supporters in New Hampshire. Obama has denied the money – the result of a disputed arms deal, stemming from the time of the Shah – had anything to do with recently released USA prisoners.
Last year Trump cast derision at McCain as well, calling the Vietnam veteran and 2008 nominee “not a war hero” because he was captured.
Trump heavily emphasized his outsider status in the lead-up to delivering his endorsements of three incumbent Republicans with a combined tenure in Congress of more than a half century.
Ryan has pointedly criticized Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim migration to the U.S., and said that the Republican nominee’s attack on a federal judge was “the textbook definition of a racist comment”. John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, both of whom are running for re-election.
“My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy”, Trump said, quoting President Ronald Reagan. “It’s going to be an all-encompassing look at how we reform the economy”, Moore said.
In an interview earlier this week, Trump said he was “not quite there yet” when it came to endorsing Ryan in his primary race.
In a radio interview Friday morning, Ryan did not rule out withdrawing his endorsement of Trump. In July, Trump implied Khan’s father Khizr Khan spoke instead of his wife Ghazala Khan because as Muslims, they subscribed to oppressive beliefs about the role of women (in reality, Ghazala Khan says she did not speak because the memory of her son was too painful).
Mr Morell said that as Russian President Vladimir Putin “played upon Mr Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him”. “That is the mark of a true leader”. He defended himself against her charge that he is temperamentally unfit for the White House.
He told WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes, “I see no goal in doing this tit-for-tat, petty back and forth with Donald Trump, because it serves no good objective in my mind”.
The endorsement of Ryan is unlikely to assuage some Republicans who are concerned by the combative and provocative Trump campaign and have grown frustrated that the almost daily controversies have made it more hard to focus on the perceived weaknesses of the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
“I like Paul, but these are disgusting times for our country”.
However the rocky path towards GOP unity plays out, Trump will have to win over Wisconsin’s Republicans to win the state. “We don’t need a weak person”.
“If you don’t like me, that’s OK, ” Trump told the Iowa crowd.
“Heck if I know”.
Upon arriving at the rally, my team and I were intercepted by a phalanx of Wisconsin GOP staffers working on behalf of Speaker Ryan and Reince Priebus. He’s a strong conservative leader.
At one point he picks up the paper and reads directly off from it during the Ryan endorsement, and he spends most of his time looking down at the podium during the McCain endorsement as well.
“I’m not going to get into any hypotheticals”, he said.
Trump went after the Democratic nominee in much the same way she’s gone after him.
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Donald Trump escalated his attacks Friday on Hillary Clinton’s character, just as top former government officials are questioning his own. “I don’t care who you are, what the hell are they doing?”
