Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan and several other Congressional candidates in their primary bids on Friday, ending a brief feud between the GOP nominee and several of the Republican Party’s most prominent stars that threatened to engulf his campaign in a new controversy.
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Vos wrote a column in advance of a Trump rally Friday in Green Bay.
Ryan reiterated his support for Trump hours before the endorsement, but the Wisconsin Republican noted his support wasn’t a “blank check” and pledged to speak out against the businessman’s divisive positions if necessary.
Trump also said this week he was not ready to endorse Ryan. But since then his polling has dropped alongside concerns from some Republicans like Vos, raising questions about whether Trump would try to fix at least some of the rift with the Ryan wing of the party.
“I see no goal in doing this tit-for-tat petty back-and-forth with Donald Trump, because it serves no objective in my mind”, Ryan said during a radio interview with conservative host Charlie Sykes.
Neither Ryan nor Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, showed up for Trump’s Green Bay event.
Ryan, who’s well-liked in his district and expected to easily defeat Nehlen on Tuesday, insisted on WISN on Friday that he wasn’t concerned with Trump’s endorsement. Such an endorsement, though a small win for Ryan, might come too late to fully undo the damage in Wisconsin.
His campaign has also received more than 12,000 individual donations from around the country, and, according to the Federal Elections Commisison, about 56 percent have been donations of less than $200.
Trump’s campaign said his economic advisory panel included former steel executive Dan DiMicco; Howard Lorber, CEO of tobacco company Vector Group Ltd; and Trump campaign finance chairman and investment manager Steven Mnuchin. “But for every one of those people he earns, he loses suburban independents or Republicans who are not going to be able to accept the man and what he seems to say and stand for”, says Michael Mezey, an emeritus political scientist at DePaul University, in Chicago.
“In the old steel towns around Pittsburgh, a lot of people are going to vote for Trump who haven’t voted before”.
“I have a thing”, he said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, points toward Republican vice presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. The parents had criticised Trump at last week’s Democratic National Convention. But Trump’s numbers are so low that it calls into question whether it is possible to climb out of such a deep hole regardless of what he now does or says. They see Clinton and President Obama as fundamentally untrustworthy, pointing to the recent reporting about the United States’ $400 million cash payment to Iran as part of a larger nuclear detente deal.
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Trump has been expressing outrage about a $400 million payment the USA made to Iran this year. Republicans call it ransom; the Obama administration says it was money the US legally owed Iran. But many prominent figures in the party are finally beginning to consider the possibility that Donald Trump either can not or will not pivot.
