Posted on 06/12/2016 6:43:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
If you've noticed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has been a less-than-enthusiastic supporter of Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting Donald Trump, you're not alone.
And according to a new report Friday, one GOP insider is now explaining why. The unnamed "longtime Republican financial backer"—who attended a New York fundraiser held by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for Trump Thursday—told TheDailyCaller that most Republican donors are on board with Trump, yet Ryan is hoping Trump loses so he can run himself in four years.
The source tells TheDC that the reason Ryan has not been coming out strongly for Trump is because of his desire to run in four years. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has been fervently anti-Trump, also wants to run in four years, according to the longtime Republican backer. Romney will be 73 in 2020.
An aide for Ryan told TheDC, "Speaker Ryan said in an op-ed in the Janesville Gazette last week that he is voting for Donald Trump and of course he wants the Republican nominee to win in November."
It has been widely speculated for months that Ryan may have been using his position in Congress to position himself for a 2020 run. The 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate was considered one of the early favorites for 2016 until he announced he wouldn't seek the party's presidential nomination.
He now faces a stiff primary challenge—unprecedented for a sitting speaker—in Wisconsin's First Congressional District.
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Earl Warren ('48), Henry Cabot Lodge ('60), Bob Dole ('76), Walter Mondale ('84), John Edwards ('04)
Only Franklin Roosevelt ('20) managed to gain the nomination and actually win. Paul Ryan is no Franklin Roosevelt!
Cantorize him!
If he loses, he won’t be around to pester us in 2020.
So he can be target practice for either Kamala or Michelle?
Good, we can kick him to the curb like we did the others this time around. Sorry Ryan, you have ruined any chances, not that you really had much of a chance anyway.
CANTORIZE YOUR WEASEL, WISCONSIN!
Before he has the chance to give away our country.
Ryan your toast.....people will REMEMBER!
Also Muskie ‘68 - I don’t recall Lodge running for President (’64 or ‘68, maybe?).
I hate Hillary but I would vote for her 2nd term before voting for Traitor Ryan. Just to show him how much he and his ilk are disliked.
Ryan is running now....he’s running out of gas.
After Hillary or whoever, there wont be a 2020.
His political future looks like Jeb Bush's - extravagantly funded by the UniParty, overwhelmingly rejected by the base.
Ditch the GOPe's pathetic princeling, Paul Ryan.
There is an alternative.
President Eddie Munster!
With a little luck, he won’t get past election 2016
For which party?
He will run as a DemocRat against President Trump.
Memo to Ryan:
Never vote for you, even if you were the only candidate running. Only good national candidate to hail from Wisconsin in my lifetime was McCarthy IMO. On the otherhand, you are akin to the Lafollettes and the loser David Obey.
Yeah - and he can choose Mitt as his Veep and lose even bigger than they did the last time around - same effect....
TRiUMPh
I forgot about Muskie. Lodge won the NH primary in ‘68 and wasn’t running at the time, nor even in the country (he was ambassador to South Vietnam).
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