In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort made it clear that in his view all was well in the Trump camp.
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Another problem cited by top Wisconsin Republicans has been the lack of Trump targeting his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the wake of last month’s GOP National Convention.
Trump on Friday evening said in Wisconsin that he would back Ryan in his Republican primary against Paul Nehlen, a little-known challenger.
Republican businessman Paul Nehlen, who is challenging the speaker in a primary election, suggested that there should be a “discussion” on the possibility of deporting all Muslims from the United States.
In an interview earlier this week, Trump said he was “not quite there yet” when it came to endorsing Ryan in his primary race.
“I’m not going to go into the hypothetical”, Ryan said, repeating that his endorsement of Trump is not a “blank check.” “Janna and I raised our family in the heart of Janesville on the block I grew up on”, Ryan said in a radio interview with WISN in Wisconsin.
Nehlen, considered a longshot in his primary battle, has hammered the speaker on immigration and trade and called Ryan’s occasional criticism of Trump “an act of sabotage against our party”.
Clinton’s statement drew rebuke from fact checkers as well as Trump, who earlier Saturday tweeted that, “Anybody whose mind “SHORT CIRCUITS” is not fit to be our president!”
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Trump said, “We have to unite”. “Paul Ryan didn’t need that endorsement”. “He’s not a war hero”, Trump said then. “What I told the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly”. “She is such a weak candidate that one would think we’d be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing that that’s not what we’re talking about these days”. “The taqiyya says you have to lie to the infidel, you lie to them if you have to…” “We may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree”.
“Green Bay is an area where if this were to be competitive, if he weren’t cutting off his nose to spite his face every five minutes, he’d have to do well up here”, Graul, the Republican strategist, said of Trump.
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But statewide Republican officeholders were nowhere to be seen Friday in Green Bay – Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Sen.
