“I don’t have a plan to do that”, he said, adding that he and Trump inevitably will disagree just as he sometimes disagreed with Mitt Romney when he was Romney’s vice presidential pick in 2012.
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So did Ryan then turn his back on Trump and suggest Republican voters do the same? “We don’t think the administration has done a good enough job confronting this threat”, Ryan said.
Other congressional Republicans claimed, improbably, not to have heard what Trump said. So I think it’s very important we hone that distinction, we honor that distinction.
Clinton, campaigning in Pittsburgh before her Tuesday night win in the Washington, D.C., Democratic primary, said: “We don’t need conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations”. “This is a war with radical Islam, it’s not a war with Islam”, Ryan said.
Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks on late Tuesday said denied the billionaire was noting USA soldiers. House Speaker Paul Ryan said it is not in the country’s best interest.
Even so, Ryan said he and Trump agree that neither one wants another Democrat in the White House.
The 200-plus-page document is largely a compilation of Trump’s past statements and aims to paint the presumptive GOP nominee as a divisive liar and bad businessman, who is loyal only to himself.
“Crazy (candidate U.S. Sen.) Bernie (Sanders), I guess he’s gone”, Trump said.
I don’t think Paul Ryan agrees, though.
One name is emerging as the saving grace: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who has privately told friends he is “intrigued” by the possibility of allowing his name to be put in the ring at the GOP convention as a challenge to Trump, two sources with direct knowledge say.
An aide to McMorris Rodgers told Politico that members ‘will have the chance to meet with Mr. Trump; share their policy priorities, learn about his plans to unite the party; and get details about his plans to move America forward’.
During his previous visits to Washington, Trump has met with House Republican leaders and a number of lawmakers who support him but not with all members of the caucus.
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Republican hopes are fading for a new, “more presidential” Trump as the party’s divisions around him grow ever more acute. He renewed his call to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the country, and added a new element: a suspension of immigration from areas of the world with a proven history of terrorism against the US and its allies. “This is too tough to do it alone, but you know what I think I’m going to be forced to”. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., has done just that, rescinding his earlier endorsement and saying that Trump “does not have the temperament” to be president. I’m going to do very well. OK?
