Posted on 10/19/2016 4:10:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Republican Speaker of the House is more widely disliked among the Republican base than he is among the Democratic one. Lest there’s any doubt what’s causing this, here’s what YouGov got when they asked people if Republican leaders were right or wrong to withdraw their support from Trump after the tape was released. Ryan actually hasn’t withdrawn his endorsement of Trump, but his phone call operated as a license to members of his caucus to withdraw their own if they felt it would help them politically.
By a five-to-one margin, Republican voters dislike watching the rest of the party run away from Trump even though the point of doing that is to protect Republican congressional majorities as a potential check on Clinton. What Ryan’s experiencing now in his crumbling popularity on the right is a taste of what Ted Cruz experienced at the convention after he declined to endorse Trump in his speech, except Ryan’s acting in the interests of his caucus instead of his own national ambitions. There’s another complicating factor in the reaction too: Republican voters simply aren’t that troubled by the “Access Hollywood” tape that caused Ryan to kinda sorta cut Trump loose. Just 14 percent told YouGov they were bothered “a lot” by it and only 21 percent thought Trump has actually done the things he talks about on it. (Bear in mind, this poll was conducted from October 15-18, days after the sexual assault allegations started dropping.) When asked if it was mere “locker room talk” or something more, Republicans split 62/14.
More Republicans said the tape made them more likely to vote for Trump than less likely. Mmmm, that’s some spicy partisanship! But note the independent numbers, particularly the 20 percent who said it made them much less likely to vote for Trump.
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Paul doesn’t have time to campaign for Trump. He’s busy writing up his resume.
So it dropped to -28?
Hence Cruz’s minor turn back to Trump and the base.
May be enough for me to vote for him this time. MAY BE.
I hope the feckless little f loses in the general.
I PRAY Ryan loses.
WI, Cantorize your weasel! ...
Why would anyone, other than a GOPe backstabbing elitist, see Ryan as “favorable”???
Any polls on how he’s doing? The speaker usually is in a safe district.
Ryan should’ve gotten his ass PRIMARIED!
Stupid Republican voters!!
Backstabber!
I keep sayin it...it’s gonna get worse before it gets better as the losers are weeded out.
Ryan is not one of those to be removed.
After a handful are done, the movement will really get going.
Ryan ... out
Cruz... out
I don’t wanna lose majority but we gotta eliminate the losers.
General coming up. Not too late.
stupid Wisconsin RINOs
Ryan IS one of those to be removed !!!!
Interesting that the dimoKKKRAT base thinks higher of Paul Ryan than the Republican base does. That says a lot.
Never thought we’d have a Speaker worse than Boehner.
And we do.
Ryan has been running TV Ads like NEVER before. I swear, up until this election cycle and the challenge to his seat, I’ve not seen them. Ever. And my TV is almost always on during suppertime.
Anyhow, he’s concerned and spending some of the tens of MILLIONS he has on hand.
And, Good!
This writer can’t stand Trump is shilling for Rino Ryan...the GOPe Boy!
I like to think Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas is far more his own man and not only a Republican but a conservative and thoroughly American.
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