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Donald Trump endorses Ryan, McCain ahead of primary races

“I need a Republican Senate and a House to accomplish all of the changes that we have to make”, Trump said during a rally in Green Bay, in northern Wisconsin, Ryan’s home state.

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Reeling from missteps that have alarmed many fellow Republicans, Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul D. Ryan for re-election on Friday in a grudging move to unite the badly fractured party.

Earlier this week, Trump told the Washington Post, “I don’t know Kelly Ayotte. We need very, very strong leadership”, he said. “We need very, very strong leadership, and I’m just not quite there yet”.

“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends”, Trump said. “And I just hate the way our veterans have been treated by John and other people”.

Earlier this week, Trump tweeted out his thanks for Paul Nehlen, Rep. Ryan’s Republican primary challenger, who defended Trump on the lingering controversy regarding his attacks against the Gold Star Khans.

Romney’s and Kasich’s endorsements of Ryan’s reelection campaign come as Trump endorsed Ryan on Friday night over in Green Bay, after previously withholding his endorsement of Ryan’s reelection. “But I will do this”, Ryan said. He’s a good man and he’s a good guy.

“I’m not going to try and psychoanalyse this stuff”, he said in a radio interview in WISN.

Mr Trump raised eyebrows this week when he made that assertion and gave details of what he said he saw in the video.

The speaker also defended his endorsement of Ryan to critics of Trump.

“Welcome to Wisconsin, Mr. Trump, but let’s get something straight”, Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos wrote in an open letter to his GOP colleagues ahead of Trump’s arrival.

“I strongly support Paul Ryan, strongly endorse his re-election”, Pence, a longtime congressional colleague of Ryan’s, said in a phone interview with Fox News. He also praised Ryan’s opponent, Paul Nehlen, for running “a very good campaign”.

However Mr Trump showed he is not mellowing by unleashing some new and deeply personal insults against his rival Hillary Clinton. He has such difficulty keeping his mouth shut that it’s being said that if Donald Trump went on vacation for two weeks, he’d end up leading in the polls.

“I feel confident he would help us turn the ideas in this agenda into laws to help improve people’s lives”.

And he acknowledged, “I’ve had to do that from time to time, more than I certainly wanted to”.

He also criticized Trump’s wildly undisciplined campaign in the days since the Republican convention.

Ryan, who’s well-liked in his district and expected to easily defeat Nehlen on Tuesday, insisted on WISN on Friday that he wasn’t concerned with Trump’s endorsement.

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