On Tuesday night, as New York’s returns showed victories for two unpopular frontrunners – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton – there was Ryan on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.
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The speaker has been, as former President George H.W. Bush used to say, in “deep doo doo” with conservatives for promising that once Republicans captured the Senate as well as the House, President Obama’s liberal reign would be reined in.
By this point, as the studio audience tittered, it was clear that Ryan and Colbert were not actually participating in an interview but following a comedy script devised by the Late Show writers. Colbert asked Ryan, who was sitting behind a massive desk and in front of an American flag, in a satellite feed from Washington.
“The truth is, I’m not particularly hankering for a conversation with those guys”, Stewart said.
“It is bolted shut”, said Ryan.
Late Night with Stephen Colbert Paul Ryan appears on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 19, 2016, on the night of the NY primaries.
If Trump can’t nail down at least 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention in July, the party could potentially choose a different nominee they think is better representative of their interests.
“If you were planning on going to the convention, you should go”, Ryan said in the Capitol, according to CNN.
Ryan’s comments came in response to the mounting concerns of GOP lawmakers who have expressed the desire to skip what many are predicting to be a chaotic and contentious event and instead focus their energy on their own re-election campaigns in their home states.
“C’mon, that was like six months ago”, the Ryan impersonator says of his reversal on running for speaker.
The skit writers at Saturday Night Live aren’t ready to believe House Speaker Paul Ryan when he insists he isn’t running for president. “And in my case, I specifically decided not to run for the job”, Ryan said. Colbert rehashed Ryan’s now-famous speech about not wanting to run.
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Last week, Ryan insisted he would not be the GOP’s nominee this cycle, no matter what.
