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Paul Ryan backtracks on whether Trump will be re-elected
CNN Politics ^ | March 13, 2019 | Elizabeth Landers

Posted on 03/13/2019 7:32:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted Wednesday that President Donald Trump's "record of accomplishment is why he'll win re-election," a significant difference from comments the Wisconsin Republican made earlier this week where he described how he thought some Democrats could beat Trump in the 2020 election.

"To be clear, GOP wins elections when they're about ideas not when they're personality contests like Dems & media want. We're clearly better off because of @RealDonaldTrump," stated Ryan's tweet Wednesday from his @SpeakerRyan official account. "His record of accomplishment is why he'll win re-election especially when compared to Dems' leftward lurch."

Ryan, who left his position at the end of the previous Congress, faced criticism from Republicans over comments he made Monday that he believed some Democrats could beat Trump, according to a report from Treasure Coast Newspapers. "The person who defines that race is going to win the race," Ryan said during a lecture, according to the publication. "If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn't going to win it."

The comments sparked a direct rebuke from the most senior Republican in the House, Kevin McCarthy, who said on Tuesday that he disagreed with the former speaker.

"I believe this President will win re-election," McCarthy said in response to a question from CNN at a weekly House GOP news conference. "I believe this President could run on many different items."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: California; Wisconsin; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: california; kevinmccarthy; paulryan; wisconsin
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. The loser can't even lose right.

21 posted on 03/13/2019 8:32:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (this tagline space is now available)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

who?

oh that washed up loser..

hey paul, you quit because I’ll bet you knew your own state would not send you back.


22 posted on 03/13/2019 8:47:11 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump will win re-election because he doesn’t wake up every morning trying to prove he’s a boy scout like Ryan does.

Trump wakes up everyday and says, ‘what can I do to keep my promises to the American people today’...


23 posted on 03/13/2019 8:47:42 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are attacking Ivanka & Jared ostensibly on security clearances - reality is antisemitism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ryan demonstrates daily why Biden kicked the shite out of him during the VP debates.

we all know the election is going to be about the Dems’ new extremist agenda of full-bore socialism, re-establishing globalism and loss of American jobs and putting America second to all other world interests, tearing down the existing southern border barricades with full open borders for unlimited immigration from all over the world of illiterate, disease-carrying peasants who can’t even read and write their own language, defunding ICE, paying “reparations”, paying a hundred trillion dollars for a big hooey-load of “green” nonsense, and eliminating the use of fossil fuels in ten years, massively increasing taxes to pay for the above, and embracing anti-Semitism ...


24 posted on 03/13/2019 8:57:04 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Agreed. The man is a terd. I don’t condone his neighbor beating the crap out Ryan, but I think now I understand his neighbor’s motivation.


25 posted on 03/13/2019 8:57:45 PM PDT by Liberal Anti Venom (Heaven has a wall, a gate and a strict immigration policy. Hell doesn't. Let that sink in.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who pays any attention to this back-stabbing opportunist of a loser?


26 posted on 03/13/2019 9:01:18 PM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: Liberal Anti Venom

I think you’re confusing him with KY Sen. Rand Paul.


27 posted on 03/13/2019 9:01:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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"...neighbor beating the crap out Ryan..."

I think that was Rand Paul, not Paul Ryan.

If someone beat the crap out of Paul Ryan, there wouldn't be anything left.

28 posted on 03/13/2019 9:03:21 PM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ryan is a Kochsucker.


29 posted on 03/13/2019 9:09:59 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican

I think attacks on Trump’s personality failed in 2016, though of course he was running against someone with an absolutely vile personality.


30 posted on 03/13/2019 9:13:21 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s a scumbag, regardless of what he says.


31 posted on 03/13/2019 9:20:38 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paul’s middle name is Backtrack.


32 posted on 03/13/2019 9:23:16 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Paul Ryan.

Respectfully, your career in politics was already completely finished. (Terms such as RINO and "open borders" come to mind, but they are mere insults; let's rise above that).

Now, it's fair to observe that you are beyond completely finished, and (please sit down for this.)

You, sir, are our Hillary.

33 posted on 03/13/2019 9:28:41 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well, that’s better...
but Ryan would do himself a great favor indeed.
to just keep his mouth shut awhile

and try to support the major policies we Americans voted for...to the extent he can bring himself to do it

he’s been shooting off his mouth something awful, with the majority of his reported statements downright embarrassing for him...making himself sound like a left wing Dimocrap or else a complete fool, or both

he’s lost a great deal of support..


34 posted on 03/13/2019 9:47:41 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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35 posted on 03/13/2019 9:52:54 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To little, to late, lyin Ryan!


36 posted on 03/13/2019 10:28:28 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Speaking of “KY,” with McConnell and Paul, I just imagine that there’s a lot of “KY” being used “greasing everyone up there!”


37 posted on 03/13/2019 10:41:40 PM PDT by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: vette6387

Frankly I’m shocked to hear Ryan saying this considering he did everything he could for the last two years to keep any part of Trump’s agenda from being enacted.


38 posted on 03/13/2019 10:48:47 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: Fiddlstix

I wonder if Paul knows who’s the Father of his children.


39 posted on 03/13/2019 11:00:34 PM PDT by skulnik
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Image result for paul ryan caricature

pinhead paul ryan

40 posted on 03/14/2019 12:18:06 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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