“We represent a separate but equal branch of government”, he said. “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP” Trump controversies have also overshadowed House Speaker Paul Ryan’s rollout of a policy agenda, a campaign document that was supposed to help bring Trump’s position more into line with mainline party doctrine.
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In a fresh sign of the chilly relations between Trump and many Republicans in Congress, a 30-year House veteran and committee chairman, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said he will not endorse the billionaire presidential candidate. It happened to Ryan again this week, when he firmly told reporters on Thursday that while he disagreed with virtually every word that recently emanated from Trump’s mouth, he would not un-endorse his party’s nominee. I’ll do very well.
“Our leaders have to get a lot tougher”. “I don’t know the answer to that either”, Ryan said with a laugh.
Despite differences with Trump including Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigrants Ryan says he will not rescind his endorsement of the presumptive GOP nominee. “That’s just the way things work”, adding that in 2012 when he was Republican Mitt Romney’s vice presidential nominee they “didn’t agree on everything”.
Ryan has endorsed Trump but has not hesitated to publicly disagree with some of his policies.
Trump on Wednesday said at a rally in Atlanta that “we have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques and we have to check other places because this is a problem that, if we don’t solve it, it’s going to eat our country alive”. He then spouted off his normal defense, that Trump was best suited to fight for Republican and American principles-“liberty, freedom, self-determination”-and that “the last thing we want is a Democrat in the White House like Hillary Clinton. Just be quiet.” Ryan’s response?” And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test, not a religious test’.
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He said in a brief interview that he was going to “stay in his lane” and run his own re-election campaign.
