Speaker Ryan denounced Trump last week after his attack on the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004.
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Sykes asked Ryan what he’d say if Trump were to support Nehlen’s comments, which Nehlen said on a Chicago radio station on Thursday.
Trump has since made a decision to endorse the House speaker, reading from a prepared statement at a rally in Ryan’s home state Friday.
The tattooed and motorcycle-riding Nehlen, who challenged Ryan to an arm-wrestling match earlier in the year and has driven a dump truck around the district urging voters to “Dump Ryan”, has focused his campaign against Ryan on two issues at the heart of Trump’s campaign: immigration and trade.
Instead of traditional campaign rallies or get-out-the-vote pushes on the eve of the election, Ryan toured two businesses. “What do you think the Packers chances are?” “We don’t want to be having this conversation five years from now”, Ryan said. He called the experience “one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life”. “Those are the people I’m going to answer questions from”.
While Nehlen has taken advantage of the national GOP debate, Ryan, who is among the most popular Republicans in Wisconsin, has the support of the state’s GOP leaders.
The ire of the pro-Trump faction is more readily understandable. On.
He recently held an immigration protest outside Ryan’s family’s home, and has accused Ryan of supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
“He doesn’t represent the people of Wisconsin”, Nehlen said of Ryan in his video. “He represents Wall Street donors”, Paul Nehlen said. “He is not merely a symptom of the corrupt and broken system, he is the corrupt and broken system”.
He has also encouraged Democrats to cross over and vote for him, which is possible in Wisconsin’s open primary.
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Evidence of Trump’s impact will come from who is inspired to show up at the polls and how those voters influence the outcome, she said. He lives in Delavan and works as senior vice president of operations at Neptune Benson, an worldwide manufacturer of water-filtration products, and owns a consulting firm.
