He also endorsed Senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, both of whom he had previously been cool towards.
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Trump’s endorsement of Ryan came hours after state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, penned a scathing column in which he said he was embarrassed to have the NY real estate mogul at the top of their ticket in the 2016 election.
Trump’s refusal to back Ryan in a Washington Post interview on Tuesday had stunned Republicans already unnerved by his unorthodox candidacy for president.
First, on Friday morning, there was Trump’s admission that he mistook video of the release of US hostages held by Iran in Geneva as video of a transfer of $400 million from the United States to Iran. Speaking in Green Bay, the GOP presidential nominee formally voiced his support for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Sen.
On Friday, Governor John Kasich of OH indicated in an interview with CNN that he was considering voting Democratic for the first time. Clinton has claimed the Federal Bureau of Investigation director said her statements on the subject have been “truthful”.
“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!” He said “Donald Trump and I are standing shoulder to shoulder to say to the American people, ‘We can be strong again'”. In the past, Trump questioned McCain’s status as a war hero, and told the Post he felt McCain “should have done a much better job for the vets”. “But since the convention, his lack of judgment has got to concern even the most ardent Trump supporters”. At the time of the Trump event in Green Bay, Walker will be at a spaghetti dinner in the small northern Wisconsin town of Grand View.
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter will campaign with Paul Nehlen, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s primary challenger, a statement from the Wisconsin businessman’s campaign announced on Thursday evening. He told the crowd, “if Hillary Clinton becomes president, you will have terrorism”. “Vote for Pence, because it’s the same thing”.
But as the highest-ranking Republican in Washington, Ryan is hugely influential – something Trump has clearly recognised.
Then there’s the torrent of money that Mr Trump has unleashed – more than $80m (£61m) in July, thanks to a flood of small-donor contributions.
He also floated a conspiracy theory that the National Security Agency had the 33,000 deleted e-mails from Clinton’s account (there is no record, report or indication that this is true).
In April, when a brokered GOP convention was still a possibility, Ryan released what looked like a campaign ad to warm convention delegates to Ryan as a compromise pick should Trump not reach the mandatory 1,237 pledged delegates. John McCain for his service to our country in uniform and in public office, and I fully support and endorse his re-election.
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“In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”, wrote Morell, who was CIA director in the Obama administration and now works for a firm run by one of Clinton’s closest advisers.
