Posted on 10/11/2016 10:47:29 AM PDT by Kevin C
Top Donald Trump adviser Ben Carson came to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s defense on Tuesday and criticized the GOP nominee for exacerbating an intra-party feud less than a month before the election.
“Paul Ryan is being very pragmatic,” Carson said in an interview with The Hill. “He recognizes that if Donald Trump loses, Hillary Clinton needs a firewall so she can’t do whatever she wants. He wants to make sure to keep the firewall there, so he’s devoting his energy to doing that.” Trump laid into Ryan in a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, calling the Speaker “weak and ineffective” and vowing to run the rest of his campaign against GOP leaders and the Republicans who have abandoned him.
Ryan held a call with the GOP conference Monday saying he would no longer defend Trump and that Republicans up for election should do what they need to do to win – even if that means cutting Trump loose.
Trump is furious over the slight, and he and his campaign signaled they would not let the matter go.
Republicans abandoned Trump in droves over the weekend after an explosive video surfaced of the nominee making obscene remarks. Some are panicking that the chaos at the top of the ticket will cost majorities in the Senate and potentially the House.
Carson said that Trump should focus on winning his own race rather than feuding with GOP leaders.
"The way forward is for them to both pursue their respective goals,” Carson said. “Trump should concentrate on the issues and stop allowing himself to be dragged off into the hinterlands … Let Paul Ryan concentrate on the House. It’s critical, you need that fail-safe mechanism.
“He’ll realize soon enough that he shouldn’t be attacking Ryan and that his energy needs to be on the issues, because that’s how he wins,” Carson continued. “If he would concentrate on those things he would win in a walk. It’s hard for him."
Carson acknowledged that the GOP appears to be in the throes of a divisive civil war, and warned that it could doom the party on Election Day.
“Basically what’s happening is our country is a train about to go off a cliff and there’s a fight going on in one of the cars,” Carson said.
“Traditionally Republicans always find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,” he added. “This might be the most graphic example of it, although there’s still hope. It’s a matter of whether folks will be willing to look at the big picture and not just at their own feelings.”
Dr. Carson MIGHT be right in his opinion, but my opinion is this:
If your with Trump, your with Trump...period...
Right, Ben, Paul Ryan will be a “fire wall” for Hillary, just as he has been a “fire wall” to Obama! Wait! Obama has gotten everything he wanted from Ryan! Oh! Never mind, we need to stay uninformed and compliant! ;-)
No, as usual the perp is ignored and Trump is blamed.
RYAN started this dust-up and RYAN is the traitor. Get is right Carson. America and honesty before partisan politics.
“He recognizes that if Donald Trump loses,”
Loser thinking.
Trump is a turnout machine, but turnout for the GOP means the same old people voting for the same old insiders, kind of like Johnny Carson’s country club where a successful membership drive is removing people from the club.
Sorry Doc, you’re wrong here.
Ryan is a turncoat weasel and deserves the criticism he is getting.
In fact, he deserves to not only lose the Speaker’s gavel, but his seat as well.
The voters in his district should hold their noses and vote for the Democrat in the D jersey to replace this Democrat in an R jersey.
It’s like saying if Trump loses, then Ryan will kiss Hitlery’s ass. What logic. There’s no difference anyway as Ryan’s face has been up obamatard’s ass for past few years.
Trump won the second debate by being Trump.
Dr Carson, are you talking about that firewall Ryan has against Obama? No, thanks.
If Trump loses there will be plenty of blame to go around. Me-I’ll be done with politics, not just the GOP.
“Republicans abandoned Trump in droves”
Really? Mike Lee, Sasse etc. never supported him to begin with
“He recognizes that if Donald Trump loses,”
Loser thinking.
Yeah, I remember all the times I was lacing up, hearing the coach say “I got other things to worry about while you slug it out - I gotta run for the school board when you guys lose.”
Ben may be sharp when it comes to medicine, but he seems quite naive when it comes to a lot of other matters.
They let obama do whatever he wants so what makes Carson think they (the GOPe/RINOs/TRAITORS) would treat illary any differently!
Sorry Ben, ain’t buyin’ it.
Bullcrap Ben, Paul Ryan WANTS Trump to lose so he can run in 2020. He couldn’t care less that Hillary will have remade the Supreme Court into a progressive rubberstamp.
He never misses an opportunity to drive on the wrong side of the road.
The Titanic sails at dawn
Everybody's shouting
Which side are you on?
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