Posted on 10/08/2016 3:33:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some voters greeted prominent Republicans with boos and loud heckling at Saturday events, after the officials spoke out against the vulgar and predatory remarks Donald Trump made about women in a newly unearthed recording.
“Paul Ryan sucks!” Milwaukee resident Paul Anderson yelled at a fall festival in Elkorn, Wisconsin, where the House speaker addressed a crowd, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“You turned your back on us,” other hecklers shouted, breaking into chants of “We want Trump!”
Trump was originally supposed to appear with Ryan at the event. But Ryan disinvited Trump hours after the recording surfaced, releasing a statement saying he was “sickened” by the GOP nominee's remarks. The joint appearance would have been Ryan's first campaign event with Trump.
In Las Vegas, Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV), who's running to replace Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), also was booed loudly as he read a statement calling for Trump to withdraw and be replaced by a candidate “with honor” who deserved to be president.
Video: Rep. Joe Heck, in close senate race in Nevada, calls on Trump to drop out as some in crowd boo him https://t.co/uHHVupSykb
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) October 8, 2016
This backlash came a day after the Washington Post published a video of Trump talking about groping women without their permission. In the 2005 clip from an "Access Hollywood" taping, Trump says on a hot mic that he used his celebrity status to force himself on women, kissing them and even grabbing them “by the pussy.”
The video has thrown the Republican Party into turmoil, with prominent elected officials including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the party's 2008 presidential nominee, and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) withdrawing their endorsements or calling for Trump to drop out.
Even as party leaders distanced themselves from their own nominee, Trump vowed to stay in the race and his supporters lashed out at prominent GOPers' lack of support for him.
At the fall festival on Saturday, Ryan only briefly acknowledged the “elephant in the room” at the start of his address before pivoting to a discussion of Republican priorities, like repealing Obamacare. Yet the crowd in Elkhorn wasn’t ready to move on, lashing out at the House speaker for leaving their candidate swinging in the wind so close to Election Day.
Local TV station WHAM reported that some attendees yelled “Shame! Shame!" at Ryan as he left the stage.
Ryan brings other Wisconsin Republicans up on stage to say goodbye, hecklers yell, "GOD BLESS TRUMP!"
"SEE YA PAUL! JACKASS!"
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) October 8, 2016
All anyone else needs to say...:He was a Democrat back then".
Ryan is a gutless f***ing weasel.
Absolutely.
Yikes! Did he actually say "used his celebrity" or did he say he could? If he did so, that's not locker room humor and he just lost the election. Stand by for 4 more years of expanding socialism. Like my Wife and I have been saying, "A lying, corrupt, criminal on the Left and a in-articulate bafoon on the Right." Sigh.
You and your wife are wrong. Shame on you.
We need to oust about 98 percent of the officeholding Republicans. And all of the officeholding Democrats.
I’d like to throw all of their worthless behinds out of office.
Look at the tape for yourself.
Don’t let the Ministry of Propaganda do your thinking for you.
Shove your shame. I call them as I see them. I've said for months that Trump would lose to Hitlery in debates, doesn't mean I won't vote for him against the witch.
Go away Bitter Cruz bots . Clinton Crime machine useful idiots.
NO ONE CARES TO HEAR YOUR LIES AND SPIN .
I call them as I see them, too.
Ryan should be thrown out of office. A Democrat in an R jersey as Speaker is far more dangerous than a new Democrat in a D jersey.
Joe Heck should not be elected Senator, he is a Cheap Labor Express stooge who wants to do what Rubio, McCain, Graham, Ayotte, etc, want to do
“Comprehensively Screw Americans Out Of Their Country”
These slithering Bitter Cruz bots reappear to do Jeb Bush’s dirty work.
Then they disappear again like rats .
“Like my Wife and I have been saying, “A lying, corrupt, criminal on the Left and a in-articulate bafoon on the Right.” Sigh. “
If you are a Navy vet then why don’t you own up to the fact that you have said far worse than Trump has and let’s see if your wife has any ethics and divorces you for it.
I think folks in Wisconsin should call his office and thank him for the bang-up job he’s done...
If Trump wins, his first priority should be to purge the GOP of traitors.
Just watched the video and read the transcript. He did NOT say the above. It was just dumb locker room talk when there was no woman on the bus. I've probably said as much to a shipmate about how women in port love to "play" with sailors. Sheesh, guys talk dirty to each other...so what's new? Even Jimmy Carter said he had lust in his heart in a Playboy interview.
That was uncool. See my post #18.
Exactly.
The Ministry of Propaganda, with help from the Cheap Labor Express Republicans, are trying to blow this way out of proportion.
Trump is a threat to their globalist plans to steal our country from us and they will use whatever they can find.
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