Donald Trump planned to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan on a Wisconsin visit Friday in an effort to end another lingering campaign controversy, national media outlets reported.
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At a rally in Green Bay, Trump said he “supported and endorsed” Ryan, flashing a smile and double thumbs up.
Ryan later said the “alt-right”, a group that has provided some of the most fervent support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, “isn’t even conservatism”.
An aide to Ryan said of Trump’s plans: “We have no knowledge of this and it’s a question for their campaign”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to move past his latest spat with Donald Trump in a series of radio interviews this week dismissing Trump’s nod to his primary challenger and insisting he’s focused on his own district. “We need a Republican president and a Republican Congress and then we’ll make the changes that America needs”.
Coffman on Thursday became the first vulnerable House Republican to release a video online in which he said he doesn’t like Trump.
Mr Ryan, the party’s highest-ranking elected official, had himself long delayed endorsing Mr Trump.
In his interview with the Washington Post, Trump attacked McCain, a decorated war hero, because he has “not done a good job for the vets”.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) for reelection while campaigning with vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Green Bay, Wis., on August 5. “Vote for Pence because it’s the same thing”, Trump said.
Ryan suggested Nehlen’s campaign is not a threat and has resorted to propagating false statements about the Speaker.
Trump also threw his support behind McCain, of Arizona, who he took to task for being captured and held as a POW during Vietnam.
Ryan, like other top Wisconsin Republicans, did not attend Trump’s evening appearance in their state. He calls Trump out for saying “stupid things” and for praising House Speaker Paul Ryan’s primary opponent.
While many prominent Republicans have either only given half-hearted endorsements of Trump, or no support at all, few Republican groups have given as strong of a condemnation of Trump.
However, Mr Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov Mike Pence, announced his endorsement of his former congressional colleague a day later.
“An improving week”, campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Friday on Fox News.
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Trump’s suggestion that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t preside over the case fairly because of his Mexican heritage led Ryan to call his views ‘the textbook example of a racist comment’. “I like people who weren’t captured”.
