It’s a message furious senior members of the party carried to Trump privately and publicly in the days after Trump last week refused in a Washington Post interview to endorse the re-election bids of House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen.
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At a rally Friday evening in Green Bay, Wis., Trump appeared uneasy as he read prepared remarks endorsing Ryan, but he grinned and flashed two thumbs up as the crowd cheered.
“He’s a good man, and a good guy”, Trump said.
He added that while they “may disagree on a couple of things”, they agree on a lot as well.
“I do have this old-fashioned idea when you run for president you ought to tell the voters of America what you would do as President”, said Clinton.
“And while I’m at it”, he said after endorsing Ryan, “I hold in the highest esteem Sen”. “I mean, he does support Paul Ryan. And she’s unbalanced. Totally unbalanced”, Trump said. Trump will deliver a speech on his economic policy plan on Monday, he said. “He was a war hero because he was captured”.
“It doesn’t make me feel good when people say those things, and I recognize that I have work to do”, Clinton said.
In the Post interview, Trump said McCain had done a bad job for veterans and faulted Ayotte, one of the party’s most vulnerable incumbents, for giving him “zero support”.
Mr Trump’s refusal to provide an endorsement seemed to indicate a sense of retaliation against Mr Ryan, who hesitated to back the NY businessman prior to his receiving the Republican nomination. For example, on Monday, Arizona Senator John McCain released a statement saying, “I can not emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement [about the Khan family]”.
But the endorsements are likely to be more of a boon for Trump than the three Republicans, as Trump’s decision to snub them hurt him with the party nationwide.
Ryan told a radio host on Thursday he’ll speak out whenever he differs with Trump.
In addition, Mr Trump plans to release his framework for boosting the United States economy in a speech in Detroit on Monday, an event that will offer him a chance to avoid theatrics and detail how he would handle economic issues if elected.
Ryan endorsed Trump on June 2 after weeks of much-publicized reluctance and deliberation, and only after it was clear the NY billionaire was likely to be the party’s standard-bearer.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president”, he said, “you will have really, in my opinion, the destruction of this country from within”.
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It was the same phrase used by Mr Ryan before he finally endorsed the Republican presidential candidate. Khan’s son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in the line of duty in Iraq.
