Trump put the focus on Ryan’s race with Nehlen on Tuesday when he said he wasn’t ready to endorse Ryan in the primary and also praised Nehlen. The congressman, who has endorsed Trump but asked not to be identified in order to speak freely, said supporting Trump is now more hard given his criticism of the Khan family. We need very strong leadership.
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HAYNES: We have heard that Reince Priebus for a number of weeks has been tearing his hair out, because there is very little he can do. “And I’m just not quite there yet”, Trump said. “I’m not quite there yet”, Trump said in the Post interview.
Priebus is furious, said a source in the party after Trump’s decision Tuesday to withhold his endorsement of Ryan ahead of the House speaker’s August 9 primary. Donald Trump seems more interested in baiting and attacking people than actually bringing everyone together. The House Speaker said these same words when he held back from endorsing a Trump presidency. In fact, Pence went one step further and publicly endorsed Paul Ryan, breaking with his running mate on the issue.
Analysts doubt Republicans will abandon Trump. Khizr Khan criticized Trump’s position on Muslims and asked whether the real estate mogul had read the Constitution. “I reject it”, the House Speaker said in a statement. Nehlen, a longshot candidate who hopes to knock out Ryan, defended Trump in the face of criticism over his dispute with Muslim parents of a decorated Army veteran killed in Iraq in 2004.
Trump’s rebuke to Ryan carried particular derision.
Joan Haney and her husband, Jim, said they also plan to vote for Ryan in Tuesday’s Republican primary.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is known to make up new nicknames for his political opponents. Kelly Ayotte in the interview with The Post, who similarly released a statement rejecting Trump’s comments on the Khans. “He’s irremediable”, said Republican strategist Rick Tyler, who previously worked for Trump adversary Texas Sen.
Mike Pence criticized comments President Barack Obama made on Tuesday about Republican nominee for president Donald Trump’s lack of judgment, saying Obama himself knows a lot about being “woefully unprepared”.
The dustup marked a significant crack in the hard alliance between Trump and the Republican establishment and raised the question of whether any GOP office holders who have endorsed the billionaire would rescind their support.
Trump continued his attack on the Democratic nominee, calling her “Crooked Hillary”, which prompted chants of “lock her up” from the crowd. “He was supposed to help the vets”, said Barbara Beck, a Trump backer in the Tucson crowd who said, along with many others surrounding her, that she will not back the longtime Arizonan. And Ryan’s ratings today are similar to his ratings in more than a dozen previous polls conducted by Marquette in recent years.
While Pence was in Tucson Tuesday, Arizona Republicans, including the state party’s GOP Chair Robert Graham, took to the microphone to rev up support for the presidential ticket from the several hundred in attendance.
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Clinton has been focusing on improving her online fundraising, and the campaign says it saw its best 24-hour period in that area last week as she accepted the nomination.
