“We shouldn’t sweep it under the rug without addressing it”, Ryan, R-Wis., said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel today. Trump immediately hit back, as has been his modus operandi throughout the campaign.
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“I don’t want to mention now”.
“I think this is a time for unity”. I like Paul Ryan. “I got blindsided by this”.
Ryan will preside over the convention in July as a permanent chairman since he is speaker of the House, though he has claimed he wasn’t aware of the responsibility until after he won his leadership post last fall. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, May 7, 2016. The speaker is not exactly a good stepping stone for president.
In several television interviews that aired over the weekend, Trump appeared uninterested in bringing the Republican Party together before the November elections, and did not rule out pushing out the speaker from his traditional role as convention chairman. Ted Cruz, who went on to win Wisconsin’s April 5 primary over Trump by 13 points.
“Yes. That is his position”, Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong wrote in an email Monday. Let me say this, the man deserves a ton of credit for an fantastic achievement, which is to bring millions of people into this party and to have a very impressive victory…
That “would be a disaster for our party”, Ryan told the Journal Sentinel.
It’s unclear if Trump would even be able to remove him. He argued that Ryan has betrayed his constituents by cozying up with the Washington establishment and not taking a tough enough stance on enforcing immigration laws, fighting against President Obama’s health care law or opposing new worldwide trade deals.
“I will give you a very solid answer, if that happens, about one minute after that happens”. Okay?” answered Trump. “But there’s no reason to give it right now, but I’ll be very quick with the answer.
But to Trump supporters like adviser Paul Manafort, shrugging off hostility from party insiders is something Trump can afford to do. If she does, it would pit the party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee directly against its 2012 nominee. Clinton aides pounced on the issue in a conference call while Trump defended himself, saying: “This is a negotiation”. She’s a terrific person…
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But Priebus said the best way to do that is not by “jamming people” who are trying to work through how they feel about Trump.
