“I mean, 17 people competed, one person won”.
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Ryan and the Republican party can not expect minority support while simultaneously ignoring the threat of Trump’s racism.
Speaking with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Ryan suggested that November is far enough away for Trump to overcome the unforced error.
“It’s not”, he said, when asked about the tenor of Trump’s campaign.
“The problem we have had in government for too long is we think the way to fight poverty is to treat its symptoms – and when we treat the symptoms of poverty, we perpetuate poverty”, Ryan stated. Obama “shrugged off” the Islamic State group, Ryan said, and he called the president’s response to Russia’s aggressiveness “timid”.
But it’s the type of message he hasn’t heard from Trump’s campaign yet, he confessed. “We should have a security test but not a religious test. The reason I say that, is as a Conservative, because I believe in the First Amendment, I believe in religious freedom, I believe in religious liberty”. “Donald [Trump] asked me to continue serving that capacity”, Ryan said on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. “But there are certain things that you can’t do as a candidate”.
“I do absolutely disavow his comments”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives on his plane before he speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, June 11, 2016 at a private hanger at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon, Pa. “So I am not for putting a bunch of things into law that we’re not going to do”.
“We have gone overboard in ruling out all sorts of options which only simplify the enemy’s calculations”, Thornberry said, responding to a question about torture during a rollout of the House GOP’s national security strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Trump had said Curiel, presiding over a lawsuit against the now defunct Trump University, is not treating him fairly because of his Mexican heritage.
RYAN: Look, I believe that he’s certainly better than Hillary Clinton.
After he concluded, a handful of senior House Republicans fielded questions, including Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Mac Thornberry, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Ryan, who supported comprehensive immigration reform in 2013 and condemned Trump’s Muslim immigration proposal, said he endorsed Trump because he is more likely to enact the GOP agenda than a President Hillary Clinton.
I don’t know what’s in his heart.
RYAN: That’s why I did that.
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‘I see it as my job as Speaker of the House to help keep our party unified, ‘ Ryan said, forecasting that ‘if we go into the fall as a divided party, we are doomed to lose’. “But I’ve spoken to him about our agenda that we’re rolling out”.
