Ryan sent shockwaves through the political establishment Thursday when he told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s “just not ready” to support Trump, making him the highest-level GOP official to reject the real estate magnate since he became the last candidate standing in the party’s nominating contest.
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“This week, Conservatives Against Trump launched a formal effort to identify an acceptable alternative candidate to run for president against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton”.
As for the party’s July convention, South Carolina’s senior senator also says he will join a growing list of veteran Republicans, including both Presidents Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain and others, now declining to attend.
He said reporters and voters should press for details on how Trump’s campaign proposals would actually work.
In a heated exchange between Jeb and Trump during the ninth Republican presidential debate on February 13, the NY billionaire blamed George W. Bush for the collapse of the World Trade Center and the death of 3,000 Americans.
It was unclear how the group, and other anti-Trump forces in the party, would proceed once his two remaining rivals for the nomination, Texas Sen. Trump said he would have “talked a little bit differently” if he’d known he was going to run for president some day. Trump also told the crowd: “I think Paul Ryan will be fine, and if he’s not, that’s OK”.
“You know, you don’t have to vote anymore”, Trump said at the rally in Charleston, W.V.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, says he will not vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton for president this year.
US Senator Lindsey Graham from SC, who made an unsuccessful bid for president, joined a growing list of Republicans who are refusing to support Trump and he announced on Friday he will also skip the Republican convention in July.
“Look, I’m going to get millions and millions of votes more than the Republicans would have gotten” without me, he said.
Trump even went as far as to instruct his supporters not to bother voting in next Tuesday’s primary and focus instead on the race in November. “I don’t believe that Donald Trump has the temperament and judgment to be commander in chief”.
Both President Bushes have said they won’t be supporting Donald Trump in the fall, and Jeb Bush declared this afternoon he can not get behind his former rival either.
Ryan said Thursday he is not prepared to endorse Trump because of questions about his commitment to conservatism.
Earlier in the primary season, Trump made similar remarks after Clinton criticized his attitude toward women.
“At this time, one thing is certain, Hillary Clinton would be an very bad choice for president and a danger to the ideals that most Americans cherish”, Vos said. No, I don’t think so. And they’re going after me with women?
Trump took issue with Ryan.
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Ryan’s office also announced that next week he and Trump will also meet – separately – with Republican National Committee Reince Priebus.
