“I think people who know me know that is not my aspiration”, said Ryan in the interview.
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Although many House Republicans aren’t necessarily thrilled with the idea of supporting Donald Trump, Arizona GOP Republican Trent Franks feels that he would rather have chaos within the Republican Party than “Hillary Clinton bringing destruction to this Constitution”.
It is a relationship of necessity, not choice. But after he suspended his campaign, Rubio changed his stance saying he is unsure if he will support Trump. He’s largely ignored collecting information on voters he needs to turn out in November, sent few staff to battleground states and taken no steps to build a fundraising network.
“Not really”, Ryan told WTMJ host Kevin Binversie. But McCain said it would take a lot to ever stand on stage next to him after Trump’s comments last July that he prefers people who don’t get captured in war.
Trump will also meet that same day with Senate Republican leaders.
Lynn Westmoreland has become one of the most outspoken critics of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s rebuke of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, another sign that the divide over the billionaire is also splitting Congress.
His party leaders left with no alternative, Donald Trump is drawing reluctant support from top Washington Republicans now that voters have put him on a glide path to the GOP presidential nomination. The speaker is not exactly a good stepping stone for president.
While Trump’s team is prepared to shrug off much of the party’s establishment, that does not include the Republican National Committee.
In the interview, Trump outlined a general election campaign that banks heavily on his personal appeal and trademark rallies while spurning the kind of sophisticated data operation that was a centerpiece of Barack Obama’s winning White House runs. He’s moving away from the model Obama used successfully in his 2008 and 2012 wins, and the one that likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is trying to replicate, including hiring numerous staff that worked for Obama.
But when fielding a question about who conservatives should vote for this fall, Ryan didn’t mention Trump’s name. “The sooner the better”, Spicer said.
The meeting was not expected to lead to an immediate endorsement by Ryan, who opposes Trump’s proposals to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States, deport 11 million illegal immigrants and impose protectionist trade policies. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the senior Senate Republican, urged the party to come together and go to the party’s convention to back him.
“What we’re trying to do is be as constructive as possible and have a real unification”, Ryan told a news conference Wednesday. “At the same time we want to make sure we don’t pretend we’re unified and then go into the fall at half strength”. Mark Kirk of IL told reporters as Kirk, one of the most endangered Senate Republicans, sped into a meeting. Shelley Moore Capito, who isn’t up for re-election until 2020.
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Boehner, for his part, has said he and Trump are “texting buddies”, and he pledged to support Trump in the general election.
