“Ryan has a primary challenge to think about; if anyone should be hunting for an endorsement at the moment, it is the Speaker if he wishes to keep his job...”
Don’t oversell yourself on this argument, remember WI is the place where the GOPe made its stand against Trump solidy... they have a well organized and well oiled machine there... I would not remotely expect WI to suddenly after being whipped up by the GOPe in the nevertrump camp that they are going to vote out Ryan for not jumping onboard with Trump right away.
Ryan is safe, I really think the dreams of a ousting of Ryan in the primary is a complete misreading of things. I don’t think Ryan is going to be “taken out” by external money and forces mad at him, any more than the externally funded and backed recall efforts did in WI... WI is WI, they aren’t going to yield to outside forces and will rally against them.
Best any national movement could hope for regarding Ryan in the shorter term, would be to try to oust him as speaker... that’s a long shot as well, but you have a far better shot at that, than taking him out in the Primary in WI IMHO.
There several several reasons Trump lost Wisconsin and Cruz being the better candidate was not one of them.
Trump had a very bad two weeks up to that primary with the Corey Lewandowski problem, the Abortion question from Chris Matthews, you name it. It was Trump’s big stumble in the campaign. Now of none of those things had happened he probably would have beat Cruz. He didn’t and he recovered and has won the nomination.
Ryan may very well a problem in his district and as has been pointed out he has lost his own hometown twice in the since 2012. He has a very tough primary fight.
Nuts!