“To be perfectly candid with you Jake, I’m just not ready to do that at this point”. “I just hope and pray that we’ll get behind him, and right or wrong, I just feel like we can’t afford to have another eight years of Obama, and I think that’s what we’re going to get with Hillary Clinton”.
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Ryan also criticized Trump for not being quick enough in disavowing an endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
“That frustration is going to push a lot of people to consider someone like Donald Trump, and I take that very seriously”, Hickenlooper said.
“I hope to support our nominee, I hope to support his candidacy fully”, Ryan said on CNN.
The Wisconsin lawmaker was viewed as a possible savior of the party establishment before ruling out a late entry to the presidential race in April. Both of the Republican Party’s living former presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush, have revealed through spokesmen that they have no plans to endorse Trump.
Ryan repeatedly denied interest in running for president this year despite attempts to draft him by some in his party.
In a statement, Trump responded that he himself isn’t ready to support Ryan’s agenda, either.
Although many Republicans are unhappy with Trump as the presumed nominee, many others seem to be fine with having the billionaire mogul represent their party. Trump on Thursday announced a new campaign finance chairman in response to questions about his readiness for a general election race.
Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate who will chair the Republican convention in July, is the highest ranking Republican to publicly voice anxiety over Trump’s all-but-clinched presidential nomination.
Trump will also name a transition team and a vice presidential search committee. Trump has said he intends to pick a Republican with prior government experience.
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Katie Packer, who ran the anti-Trump Super PAC, conceded defeat with a sense of humor on Wednesday. However, many prominent activists, journalists and elected officials in his own party have figured out what Hillary Clinton has argued all along: Donald Trump is too big a risk for America. Romney came in first in the Florida primary on January 31 and is looking ahead to Nevada’s caucus on February 4. All have pledged to support the eventual nominee – to do otherwise would risk alienating Trump’s many enthusiastic supporters.
