Donald Trump has endorsed US House Speaker Paul Ryan, ending a four-day stand-off which exposed deeps chasms in the Republican party over the billionaire’s presidential candidacy.
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“Paul Ryan, good, good man, he’s a good man and he’s a good guy”, Trump said.
“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory”, Trump said.
Mr Trump earlier this week refused to endorse Mr Ryan when he told The Washington Post he was “not quite there yet” – using the same phrase Mr Ryan had used about Mr Trump before finally endorsing him.
In a Tuesday interview with the Washington Post, Mr Trump declined to endorse Mr Ryan, and said that he liked the congressman’s challenger. We need very, very strong leadership.
“We need unity. We have to win this election”, Trump told a rally in Ryan’s state of Wisconsin, as he stressed a “big tent” Republican Party is the only way to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton in November’s election. Trump said he was “not quite there yet” on endorsing Ryan. “And I just hate the way our veterans have been treated by John and other people”.
It appears Trump’s hesitation to endorse Ryan hasn’t had a negative impact on the incumbent’s popularity in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District ahead of the August 9 primary.
Donald Trump planned to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan on a Wisconsin visit Friday in an effort to end another lingering campaign controversy, national media outlets reported. Nehlen this week said he was open to deporting American Muslims who follow Sharia Law from the U.S.
What the Republican Party just had Trump do was the exact opposite of what they needed.
McCain’s base represents the part of the Republican Party that is appalled by Trump.
Trump called his Democratic opponent “a risky liar”, “an unbalanced person”, “pretty close to unhinged”, “totally unfit to lead”, and lacking “the judgment, temperament and moral character to lead the country”.
Trump also praised Ryan’s opponent, Paul Nehlen, for running “a very good campaign”.
“In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”, wrote Morell, who served presidents in both parties over the past three decades and now works at a firm founded by a former Clinton aide.
Trump read his endorsement off a sheet of paper in a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, last night. Ayotte faces a tough re-election bid in New Hampshire, a swing state, and has said she will vote for Trump but withheld an explicit endorsement.
Ryan dismissed such speculation in an interview with WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes, saying that Trump won the primary “fair and square” and that he has an “obligation” to honor the results of the primary.
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