House Speaker Paul Ryan, under siege from fellow Republicans for his unwillingness to help Donald Trump, accused Democrat Hillary Clinton and liberals on Friday of seeking impose “a gloom and a grayness” on America and pursuing a government-heavy agenda for elites. The billionaire has also attacked Ryan on TV and at rallies after the speaker said he would no longer defend Trump and would not campaign with him following the release of a 2005 video in which Trump talked about groping women.
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“Look at all the words in there that are simply created to elicit anger and distrust as Donald Trump would”, Soglin said.
“Speaker Ryan and Republican leaders have a lot to answer for” by allowing Trump to offer conspiracy theories and helping him win the nomination, Palmieri said.
“The brand has already been irrevocably damaged”.
“The America we want is about empowering people to flourish and thrive”, Ryan said. What he is doing is trying to ensure that there is a party left to seek the nomination from if and when he does decide to run for president in 2020.
If Trump loses Virginia, he’ll need to find another way to make up a batch of electoral votes that successful Republicans have banked on. Four years after Barry Goldwater’s massive loss in 1964, Richard Nixon staged a Republican comeback.
He was already well known by the public, and would not have had the difficulty getting attention that plagued numerous Republicans who actually ran against Trump.
Ryan also stressed the importance of ensuring Republicans keep control of the Senate. And he acknowledged that college Republicans might be having a rough time lately.
More broadly, they may ask: What’s the right side of history?
Trump doesn’t explicitly say he wants low voter turnout.
With Ryan, it is usually better to take a longer view, because he himself does. But U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., seeking re-election, has refused to back Trump.
He predicts Trump will lose November 8 and worries he will take down Republican incumbents with him, jeopardizing the GOP’s 54-46 advantage in the Senate. “I know some people are avoiding making any choice at all – and I don’t begrudge anybody for that”.
In growing numbers of campaign ads, Democrats have been linking local congressional candidates to Trump.
The Congressional Leadership Fund’s staggering haul – more than nine times greater than what the group raised during the same period two years ago – was thanks mostly to Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, who together gave the group $20 million. Clinton on Twitter this week noted that Ryan has not recanted his endorsement of Trump.
Trump, of course, was subsequently presented with two strategic options.
“In this cycle, we’ve got Donald Trump, the biggest tail wind we’ve ever had”, Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., former head of House Democrats’ campaign efforts, said in an interview this week.
Pence excited some conservative voters with his debate performance.
Politico, NBC/Wall Street and YouGov polls show a Republican electorate barely rattled by the video-tape release, with an average of 80 percent of GOP voters still expressing some support for their nominee. Ryan, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Rubio followed. In each of these states, how well or poorly Trump fares could affect the fate of Republican Senate candidates. He’s just not going to say that.
But if Ryan is battling for the soul of the Republican Party he picked a unusual battle ground and a odd message for students saddled with college debt.
It appears that Donald Trump’s bigotry and racism against people of color and Muslims could be explained away by Republican leaders as a “gaffe” or the words of someone who is not a “professional politician” or he is an “outsider”.
He said Ohio Governor John Kasich, another presidential candidate who consistently refused to endorse Trump, may emerge in the strongest position of all.
He took seven questions from audience members that were submitted in advance and none of which mentioned Trump.
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But that assumes the anti-Trump forces in the party hold sway after the election.
