Notably it is Ryan’s opponent, businessman Paul Nehlen, who has garnered praise from Trump; he said Nehlen is running “a very good campaign”.
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Paul Nehlen, who faces near-impossible odds of defeating Ryan in Tuesday’s race, railed against the speaker in a Tuesday-night phone interview with Business Insider, characterizing him as “the most open-borders, anti-worker, pro-Wall Street member of Congress on either side”.
Many Republicans have expressed support for the parents in recent days, and some have sharply rebuked Trump, most notably Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman John McCain, a military veteran and former prisoner of war. Trump saying, quote, “I’m just not there yet”.
The real-estate tycoon also lashed out at another Republican US senator, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, as weak and disloyal. He singled out Ayotte, who like McCain condemned Trump’s comments about the Khans.
Mr Trump said the grieving father had “no right” to criticise him, only later acknowledging their son is a hero.
Mr. Trump hit back suggesting that the speech probably was written by the scriptwriters of Hillary Clinton and the mother was standing there silently probably because he wasn’t allowed to speak (indicating at the hardline islamic ideology). From the podium of the Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan criticized Trump’s position on Muslims and asked whether the real estate mogul had read the Constitution.
Mr Trump’s statement comes amid intense fallout over his criticism of the family of the late Captain Humayun Khan, a US Army soldier who died in Iraq in 2004. Having largely been silent during equally outrageous and offensive broadsides over the past year, Republican elected officials and candidates now seem to be envisioning a golden off-ramp from Trump’s highway to electoral hell.
As for McCain, Trump insisted in the interview that he’s never endorsed the longtime Arizona senator.
“Sally is representative of an important segment of our party, and that is college-educated women, where Donald Trump is losing by disastrous margins”, said Ari Fleischer, who worked with Bradshaw on the GOP project and was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say ‘enough'”.
“I’m just not there yet”, Trump said, closely echoing Ryan’s own demurral before eventually endorsing Trump, when he told CNN on May 6, “I’m not there right now”.
Earnest says that the 2012 presidential election contained complaints from some supporters of Mitt Romney that the polling was skewed against the Republican nominee, so Trump’s suggestion is not entirely new. We need very, very strong leadership. I used to work as a beer cart girl on a golf course and once watched someone chug a beer, puke it up, chug more beer, then flip their golf cart, and that was a classier than this interview. “I don’t know. You’d have to ask those guys”. John McCain just two weeks after pledging to bring the fractured GOP together at the party’s nominating convention.
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Now, a little more than three months from Election Day, the two heaviest hitters in the Republican Party are at another crossroads.
