This week, he’s moving to pick up the pieces.
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But Ryan said Wednesday that these differences are not at issue, because “this is a big tent party”. The Trump campaign is now looking more toward November with outreach to unify the party as well as finding a vice presidential candidate.
House Republicans joined in on Wednesday morning.
Both men have cooled the conflict over the past week, with Ryan offering compliments about Trump’s primary victory and his openness to discussing the direction of the party.
But according to several allies of the speaker, Ryan wants some assurances for himself. “Do you want four more years of the same failed, liberal agenda?”
A source from Ryan’s office revealed that the speaker will be unlikely to endorse Trump after the meeting on Thursday, which staff has described as the beginning of a conversation. Simply sitting it out is respectable for Jeb Bush or Lindsey Graham, who have said they’re putting conservative principle ahead of party. “If we make a deal, that’ll be great”. “I think that’s probably fair to say across the board”. “We have to be at full strength to win this election”.
Asked if Ryan’s comments bothered him, Amodei said: “Yes, it does”.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, a friend of Ryan’s, was surprised by the speaker’s lack of endorsement.
“I think what students will be discovering”, Smith said, “is there are some of elements about Donald Trump that will be surprising”.
Trump stunned the political world at every turn during the Republican primary season, prioritizing large rallies over intimate voter interactions in early voting states and operating with a slim campaign operation. Mr Trump is also expected to meet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Though some of them might be back there to push him down a flight of stairs”.
“The other thing is the tone that he has had”, Capito said.
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While Trump has discussed investing significant sums of his personal fortune to help elect fellow Republicans to Congress, he had previously left the door open to paying for his own campaign using the public financing system, which provides major party presidential nominees a lump sum grant of roughly $94.14 million in the general election. “It’s always talked about; I don’t think it’s something that’s likely to happen”. “I hope to though, and want to”. I am also going to continue spending money on myself. “We’re not just going to fall in line because he’s the nominee”.
Many expect Trump to build momentum as the convention approaches, narrowing his opponents’ options. “It’s too important a time in our life”.
Trump’s detractors on Capitol Hill believe Ryan has provided cover to his colleagues in tough races by showing some distance from the candidate. “There’s typically 10 on the Florida ballot”.
“I will neither vote for, nor in any other way support, Mr. Trump”, he said in an email to CNN.
There is no bravery on the Republican side, just a long held position of racism and bigotry that the GOP can no longer keep a secret. And after Thursday’s meeting, patience will wear thin among many in his party.
Louisiana GOP Rep. John Fleming, who told reporters he’s backing Trump, said the process for his colleagues could take months and stretch out through July when Trump will get the formal Republican nomination.
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And if he doesn’t? “And that can’t be the message back to the American people”.
