Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan late Friday, ending a four-day standoff between the GOP’s most powerful men that exposed deepening concerns about the NY billionaire’s presidential candidacy.
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Donald Trump is expected to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday, moving to mend an intra-party rift that has put the Republican presidential nominee at odds with its highest-ranking elected official.
“I like Paul, but these are awful times for our country”, Trump said Tuesday of Ryan, who faces a challenge by a conservative insurgent in the August 9 Wisconsin primary.
Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesman Brandon Weathersby said Friday: “While Donald Trump continues his hateful and offensive rhetoric, Wisconsin’s Republican leaders continue to stand behind him”.
“We need more effective spending and Trump wants to do that – to have stronger finances for the country”, he said.
Trump’s decision comes just three days after he declined to endorse Ryan, telling the Washington Post that he was “not quite there yet”-a statement eerily similar to Ryan’s reluctance to endorse Trump in May. I’m not quite there yet”.
Pence insisted that he and Trump see “eye to eye” on the issue, even though Pence and Trump disagree on whether to support House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also criticized the NY businessman.
He also refused to support the Arizona Senator, John McCain, and his colleague from New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, who both condemned his comments about the family of a USA soldier killed in Iraq in 2004.
Mr. Trump announced he was setting up an economic advisory team to help guide him on economic policy.
Trump’s language was reminiscent of the words Ryan used when he refused to back Trump in May, saying: “I’m just not ready to do that at this point”.
Acknowledging the need to work with Congress to accomplish his agenda, Trump went on to endorse Sens. He called Trump’s remarks “beyond the pale” in a radio interview with WTAQ but did not withdraw his endorsement of the GOP nominee.
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Mr 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”. “In another way, she’s a weak person”. “Because I feel I have to, in order to defend Republicans, and our principles, so that people don’t make the mistake of thinking we think like that”. He said “Donald Trump and I are standing shoulder to shoulder to say to the American people, ‘We can be strong again'”.
