“And we’ve got a ways to go from here to there”, the speaker said on CNN Thursday.
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Asked if he’d write in a vote, Baker said, “It’s going to depend who is else on the ballot, I suppose”.
Thursday’s comments were all the more startling because Trump has now emerged as the party’s standard-bearer and Ryan will be co-chairman of the Republican presidential nominating convention in July.
“Paul’s just being honest with how he feels”, Priebus said, adding that Ryan “just wants some time to just work through it”. “He won fair and square”, Adelson told reporters while attending the World Values Network gala in New York City on Thursday.
The salvos involving the likely White House nominee and the House speaker were highly unusual and rarely seen in the days after a political party essentially crowns its victor and all involve work to unify the party for November’s elections.
As Donald Trump assumes the mantle of presumptive nominee, what happens to all those so-called “never Trump” Republicans?
The rival Hillary Clinton campaign immediately slammed Trump asserting that the former secretary of state would not tolerate this divisive and unsafe direction as the US President. Ryan was Romney’s running mate. One day, Trump seems willing to embrace even the most laissez-faire aspects of the laissez-faire economy; the next day Trump is embracing trade embargoes and minimum wage hikes. “I mean if they don’t want to, I don’t think it matters”.
“But at the same time, now that we have a presumptive nominee who is going to be our standard-bearer, I think it’s very important that there’s a demonstration that our standards will be beared”, Ryan said. “I hope to, though, and I want to”.
Admitting that he has subtly called out Trump during the 2016 primary race, Ryan said, “I will do that in the future” if necessary.
Trump’s lean campaign team will likely depend heavily on the Republican National Committee as he shifts to the 50-state task ahead.
The Democratic president delivered an indirect swipe at the flamboyant, combative Republican primary campaign run by Trump, a former reality television star, and how media have covered it. Trump said. “Hair spray is not like it used to be”.
Adelson donated tens of millions of dollars to Mitt Romney and organizations supporting the Republican challenger in the last election, and was by far the largest such donor.
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Trump has not yet ruled out accepting public financing for his general-election effort.
