Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester, who lives in Ryan’s district, said he and “almost every Republican I know in Wisconsin” support Ryan’s re-election bid.
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The other co-host, Charlie Rose, asked, “So Donald Trump is getting out of the election and Paul Ryan is jumping in?”
“We will have disagreements but we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory”, Trump said, delivering prepared remarks during a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wis.
On Tuesday, Trump withheld his support for the House speaker’s Wisconsin primary reelection, saying in an interview with The Washington Post, “I’m just not quite there yet”, words that echoed Ryan’s comments about his own initial hesitation to endorse Trump as presidential nominee back in May: “I’m just not ready to do that at this point”.
The two had both criticised Mr Trump’s attacks on the bereaved parents of a US Muslim soldier killed in Iraq.
Trump acknowledged during his campaign event Friday that he would need the help of various party factions.
When Donald Trump last campaigned in Wisconsin four months ago, he clashed openly with the state’s leading Republicans on his way to a resounding primary defeat.
Mr Trump “may well pose a threat to our national security”, he wrote in a New York Times column. He has skipped from one misstep to the next, sparking a fresh wave of Republican defections among longtime party loyalists who refuse to support their presidential nominee -some even publicly support Clinton. Ryan eventually endorsed Trump in June, writing in an op-ed: “It’s no secret that he and I have our differences”.
“If you don’t like me”.
It’s no secret that Donald Trump’s campaign is an unmitigated disaster at this point, with the gaffes over the past week piling up too high even to count.
The former secretary of state sought to “clarify and explain” a recent statement on Fox News Sunday that FBI Director James Comey said her answers to the bureau about her use of a private email server were “truthful”.
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania says Donald Trump should be making the case against Hillary Clinton “rather than getting involved in other unrelated discussions”. Ryan has called for an “open door” immigration system that allowed workers to come and go to fill U.S.jobs.
Mr Morell said that as Russian President Vladimir Putin “played upon Mr Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him”.
“Certainly with her as an opponent, the guy would have a path to do it”, he said, but, “it’s just been one ridiculous thing after another”.
Ryan says that “I see no goal in doing this petty back and forth with Donald Trump”. “She is a rising star and will continue to represent the great people of New Hampshire so very well for a very long time”. Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Kyle Potter in St. Paul, Minnesota; Catherine Lucey in Des Moines, Iowa; and Lisa Lerer and Erica Werner in Washington contributed to this report.
Capping the lousy week, Mr Trump admitted Friday that he wrongly claimed to have seen secret Iranian footage of US$400 million in hard currency being delivered to Tehran as payment for the release of United States prisoners.
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Trump conceded Friday he was wrong to claim repeatedly in recent days that he saw a video of a US cash payment going to Iran.
