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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Ryan, on the other hand, said Donald Trump could cross a line that would prevent him from backing his own party’s presidential candidate.
“Arm in arm, we will rescue the country from the Obama-Clinton disaster”, Trump told supporters after formally declaring his support for Ryan in next week’s congressional primary.
But then, Trump pointed out that he owes his success to his ability to put together “a really fantastic team” and stressed that he would need a Republican House and Senate to accomplish his agenda as president.
But in neighbouring Wisconsin, a state Trump insists he can win, the state’s best-known Republicans said they were too busy to attend an evening event.
Trump formally endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan and New Hampshire Sen.
Trump’s endorsement of Ryan would come at an 8 p.m. ET rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, two sources said.
He also disagreed with Trump’s comments over the feud with the family of a Muslim American army captain killed in the Iraq war. “I’m not quite there yet”, Trump said in the Post interview. Only after pushback from the party did he endorse Ryan and McCain on Friday, along with GOP Sen. Ryan is ahead by 66 points over his primary challenger, Paul Nehlen-and he has a 80 percent approval rating with Republicans in his district.
Republicans have long anxious having Trump at the top of the ticket could negatively impact their party’s candidates in House and Senate races. With regard to immigration, Ryan recently said “we have to come up with a solution that doesn’t involve mass deportation”, but mass deportation of undocumented immigrants is exactly what Trump wants to do.
“He’s going to support Paul Ryan”, Manafort said.
“I’m not going to get into any hypotheticals”, he said.
Trump’s endorsement comes after a protracted battle between himself and Ryan, which began when the Speaker refused to endorse the GOP nominee in May.
Wright said she doesn’t understand why Republican leaders like Snyder continue to support Donald Trump, instead of speaking out against his actions.
“It doesn’t make me feel good when people say those things, and I recognize that I have work to do”, Clinton said.
“I have said during the interview and in many other occasions over the past months that what I told the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly”, Mrs Clinton said.
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“With any endorsement of anybody, there’s never a blank check”, Ryan told conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes in Milwaukee.
