The former Ukip leader said that he is “interested” to hear what presidential hopeful Donald Trump has to say when he addresses Republicans at the event in Cleveland, which begins on Monday.
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“I can not and will not support Trump”, one audience member at Tuesday’s CNN Town Hall event said.
“Donald Trump has already insulted almost every group in this country – blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women”, Burkman said.
One person challenged Ryan on Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., an idea for which Ryan has criticized Trump in the past.
But those middle-of-the-road answers just don’t excite.
Only one of Rhode Island’s remaining GOP delegates, Woonsocket attorney Thomas Dickinson, has publicly aligned himself with the anti-Trump movement, but as a Kasich delegate his involvement doesn’t change Trump’s majority support. And to his critics, the speaker’s insistence on supporting Trump despite his divisive rhetoric is frustrating.
Feaman, who is Palm Beach County’s Republican committeeman and Florida’s Republican National Committeeman, opposes efforts to dislodge Trump. “You ran knowing those things”.
“I think there is still an amount of coming together that is necessary”, says Republican strategist and New Hampshire delegate Tom Rath.
“10 seconds ago”, Ryan joked. If you want reasonable gun control laws as offered by the Democrats, then you have to vote the Democrats into control the House.
He said: “Having criticised President Obama for getting involved in British politics, I am not about to endorse anybody”.
Remember Ryan’s advice in November – win an election.
Another question: Would Ryan as chairman of the Republican National Convention support an open floor process in which delegates can vote their conscience?
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, an outspoken Trump critic who will be serving on the convention’s powerful Rules Committee, hasn’t been asked to speak, said his spokesman, Conn Carroll. “I won’t put my thumb on the scale as to what these delegates do”.
“I wouldn’t condone it or participate in it or enable his actions in any way whatsoever”, he said. And he’s representing views that a lot of people held but were afraid to say because that’s just not how government works.
“We have a binary choice”, the speaker said.
Donald Trump can only hope to be that lucky.
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Like past Republican presidential nominees, Mr. Trump has relatively higher favorability ratings among white, non-Hispanic Protestants and Catholics, according to a June survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution. One point Trump forces quietly insisted on, Johnson said, was support for restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act, a series of limits on banking practices dating to 1933 and repealed under President Bill Clinton.
