Speaker Ryan, I can not and will not support Donald Trump and it concerns me when Republican leadership is supporting somebody who is openly racist and has said islamophobic statements, wants to shut down our borders.
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It will also show how much money those running in the open 8th Congressional District seat in northeastern Wisconsin brought in.
“I believe he’s going to endeavor to try”, Ryan said.
Surely one of the hardest jobs at the Republican convention belongs to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who will preside over it.
On the surface, the two share little common ground.
House Speaker Paul Ryan may be known as a policy wonk, but he also appears to have become a political fundraising machine. Ryan is 46; Trump is more than a generation older.
He continued, “What I think is necessary to have a national election worthy of being a majority party-we have to sell converts to conservatism”. “I have certain duties and responsibilities”, among them keeping the party together.
Gov. Scott Walker ran against Trump, urged others to unite against him and campaigned in Wisconsin’s primary for Texas Sen. He speaks of Trump mainly as a better potential president than Democrat Hillary Clinton, whose party is moving farther left.
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Trump said this week that any such pivot was unlikely. Trump and the GOP have had a tumultuous relationship the last few months, with Ryan seeming to be stuck in the middle.
