Ryan Goes Silent on Trump
Politico: “Ever since Ryan distanced himself from the top of his party’s ticket one week ago, a frustrated and reeling Trump has lashed out at the Wisconsin Republican on a near-daily basis. Ryan has become one of Trump’s favorite targets. Yet instead of parrying the attacks and defending himself, the speaker has deployed a strategy of complete disregard: pretend he can’t hear the loudest guy in politics and focus solely on protecting his suddenly fragile House majority.”
Trump Says Ryan Doesn’t Want Him to Win
Donald Trump told ABC News that Speaker Paul Ryan does not want a President Trump because of his own political ambitions in 2020.
Said Trump: “Well, maybe not, because maybe he wants to run in four years or maybe he doesn’t know how to win.”
He added: “Well, I don’t want to be knocking Paul Ryan. I think he could be more supportive to the Republican nominee.”
Ryan Pushes Back on Trump’s Charge of Rigged Election
House Speaker Paul Ryan pushed back against Donald Trump’s claims that the election is being rigged through a spokesperson, BuzzFeed reports.
Said press secretary AshLee Strong: “Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity.”
Ryan’s Job Is Only Getting Harder
David Wasserman: “Paul Ryan’s decision to throw Trump under the bus to save his majority, and Trump’s decision to lash out at Ryan as ‘weak and ineffective,’ could have even greater ramifications in January than November. That’s because if Democrats cut Ryan’s majority in half, the GOP’s losses are much likelier to come from the ranks of Ryan loyalists than Trump loyalists or the Freedom Caucus.”
“Such an outcome could make Ryan’s job miserable in 2017. If Clinton wins, would Ryan even want to run for speaker when the job would probably entail breaking the ‘Hastert Rule’ just to keep the government open or avoid debt default – incurring the wrath of his own party? And if Trump blames Ryan’s stiff-arm for his loss, could Ryan even muster enough Republicans to win the race for speaker without resorting to pursuing Democratic votes?”
Politico: “With GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump cratering in the polls and the House Republican majority at serious risk, Ryan’s post-election career could take a number of different turns after Nov. 8 – none of them especially attractive. And as Ryan goes, so will Washington governance over the next few years.”
Trump Suggests Ryan Is Part of a ‘Sinister Deal’
Donald Trump floated the prospect of a “sinister deal” preventing Speaker Paul Ryan from coming to his defense, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “Wouldn’t you think Paul Ryan would call and say, ‘good going.’ You’d think they’d say, ‘Great going, Don. Let’s go, let’s beat this crook. Let’s beat her, we’ve got to stop her.’ No, he doesn’t do that. Theres a whole deal going on, we’re going to figure it out. I always figure things out. There’s a whole sinister deal.”
Trump Goes Nuclear on Ryan
Donald Trump took aim at Speaker Paul Ryan in an interview on Fox News.
Said Trump: “I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people that I can tell you, including Ryan…especially Ryan.”
Trump also accused Ryan of having “opened borders and amnesty” and he charged that Ryan had promoted “bad budgets by the way, very, very bad budgets.”
Paul Ryan May Yet Yank Endorsement from Trump
“As thoroughly as the House speaker shocked the national political establishment Monday by saying he’s done with Donald Trump and it’s time to focus on his House majority, there’s a distinct possibility Ryan will go a step further and completely yank his endorsement,” sources close to him told Politico.
“In fact, Ryan has personally been on the edge of pulling the plug but has held out because his decision is about more than just his personal feelings: It’s about saving his massive 60-seat majority. The Wisconsin Republican is in an excruciating spot: He feels torn between his own conscience and his obligations as the top Republican in the country, according to multiple sources in leadership familiar with the internal discussions.”
Ryan Says He Won’t Defend Trump Any Longer
“Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning he is done defending Donald Trump and will focus on keeping an increasingly imperiled House majority, according to sources on the call,” Politico reports.
Said Ryan: “You all need to do what’s best for you in your district.”
Washington Post: “The speaker, who has pledged to vote for Trump, did not address whether he would revoke his official endorsement, said a second source present on the call. The tone of that call, which lasted roughly an hour, added that source, was ‘nervous.'”
Ryan Discussed Pulling Support for Trump
“House Speaker Paul Ryan has discussed withdrawing his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions within his inner circle,” Politico reports.
“Ryan is gathering House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning at 11 a.m.”
“No decision has been made. But that the speaker of the House has even mulled abandoning his own party’s presidential nominee is illustrative of the extraordinarily bizarre political climate in the Republican Party.”
Ryan Scraps Appearance with Trump
Speaker Paul Ryan said that he was “sickened” by Donald Trump’s lewd comments about women, and announced that the GOP nominee would no longer campaign with him in Wisconsin on Saturday, Politico reports.
“The speaker did not, however, comment on whether he still supports Trump for the presidency.”
Ryan Plans to Steamroll Democrats
“If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them,” Politico reports.
“Typically, party leaders offer at least the pretense of seeking bipartisanship when discussing their policy plans. But Ryan is saying frankly that Republicans would use budget reconciliation — a powerful procedural tool — to bypass Democrats entirely. It’s the same tool Republicans slammed Democrats for using to pass the 2010 health care law over their objections.”
Paul Ryan Struggles to Keep Distance from Trump
BuzzFeed: “People close to Ryan said there is an art to crafting the perfect rhetorical response to one of Trump’s eruptions: They must be strongly worded enough for the speaker of the House’s condemnation to be taken seriously — but not so strongly worded that he’s left with no choice but to withdraw his endorsement. Capitol Hill staffers have expressed pity for Ryan’s well-regarded press secretary, AshLee Strong, who is often tasked with drafting and disseminating these statements.”
Said one GOP communications adviser: “I can’t imagine having to do that. It would just be soul-sucking.”
House Conservatives Plot Against Speaker Again
“House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election to his leadership post in January is fast turning into a potential showdown between establishment Republicans and conservatives looking to weaken the speaker and win changes to House rules,” the Huffington Post reports.
“Conservatives don’t have enough votes to oust Ryan (R-WI). But they say their coup movement shows his hold on the speakership is far more tenuous than he realizes. Denying Ryan re-election on the first ballot would undermine his political future and cast him as a conservative pariah, they say, and may give conservatives leverage to enact rules changes that would help them push their agenda for years.”
When Will McConnell and Ryan Weigh In?
First Read: “If Trump’s poll position doesn’t soon change, there will be two key GOP voices that everyone will want to hear from, especially after this campaign shakeup — House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Those two men have the potential power to declare the presidential race over, and to say that the Republican Party’s energies and resources should be devoted to saving the GOP House and Senate majorities. We’re not saying that moment is here or even a week or two away. But it’s definitely a story to watch.”
Paul Ryan Fights to Survive Trump
Rick Klein: “On the day that Donald Trump said and then said he didn’t say that Second Amendment backers could stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges, something remarkable happened in Wisconsin: Paul Ryan won his primary. By a lot. The House speaker won the GOP nomination by more than 46,000 votes out of 68,000 cast, for a ridiculous margin of 84-16. As is expected, and appropriate, Ryan was asked at his victory news conference to react to Trump’s latest. Ryan said he hopes Trump clears up what he said ‘very quickly.’ He also said something that you didn’t have to read between any lines to read as clearly anti-Trump. ‘It’s simple to prey on people’s fears,’ Ryan said. ‘That stuff sells, but it doesn’t stick. It doesn’t last.'”
“That’s Ryanism, which the speaker is presenting as an alternative to Trumpism – even now, post-convention, post-endorsement. If Trump has done something right in appealing to his base, so, undeniably, has Ryan. You don’t win by nearly 70 points in a primary, in the post-Cantor age, with Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter lined up for your opponent, if you don’t know what your voters want, in terms of style and substance. Ryan’s plan has been what it has always been: To still be standing, whatever happens at the top of the ticket.”
Ryan Wins Primary
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) won his primary defeating long shot challenger Paul Nehlen (R), the AP reports.
Ryan Says Trump Hasn’t Crossed Line Yet
When Speaker Paul Ryan was asked by Charlie Sykes whether there’s anything that would cause him to rescind his endorsement of Donald Trump. he said, “Of course.”
But he wouldn’t say what that is.
Said Ryan: “Where that line gets crossed, I don’t know where that is.”
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