Posted on 03/12/2019 8:28:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Monday that President Donald Trump could lose the 2020 presidential election if his “personality” is the central focus of his campaign.
“The person who defines that race is going to win the race. If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn’t going to win it,” Ryan said during a lecture in Vero Beach, Florida, according to TCPalm.com.
The former speaker said President Trump should focus on issues of substance, rather than not style, if he wants to beat his Democrat presidential rival next year. Potential Democrat presidential contenders include Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ). Former Vice President Joe Biden and former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) are expected to launch campaigns in the coming weeks.
Ryan retired from the House in January after serving three years as the chamber’s speaker.
President Trump and Ryan have had an uneasy relationship. In an interview with the Daily Caller, the president blamed Ryan for failing to help secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
“Well, I was going to veto the omnibus bill and Paul told me in the strongest of language, ‘Please don’t do that, we’ll get you the wall.’ And I said, ‘I hope you mean that, because I don’t like this bill,'” the president told the outlet.
“Paul told me in the strongest of terms that, ‘Please sign this and if you sign this we will get you that wall.’ Which is desperately needed by our country. Humanitarian crisis, trafficking, drugs, you know, everything — people, criminals, gangs, so, you know, we need the wall,” he added. “And then he went lame duck.”
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Shut up Paul
Just Ryan’s wishful thinking
Mr. Ryan should just go back to cruising bars on the down low.
Thanks for helping the Dems win the House, Asshat
When the full history of the Trump presidency is written, Ryan’s name will be compared with Benedict Arnold.
Because his running mate’s personality was such a winner, eh?
Like he knows anything about having ‘personality’....................
All Ryan ever did was win a district in Wisconsin. After that he sold out to the corrupt elites. I think Trump is many times more skilled at winning a national election than he is.
Hey dips_it Ryan, his personality was one of the big reasons he won. Mutt’s and your personalities, or lack of, is one of the reasons you lost.
Now go get a job you fool.
So is Ryan giving speeches for money? Is this want he does for a living now? Wasn’t he going to spend more time with the family when he left Congress????
Ryan is rooting for the Rat who will lose to DJT.
He’s offering advice to the Rats.
Paul knows all about losing.
Unlike Trump.
“Thanks for helping the Dems win the House, Asshat”
I guess he feels “his work isn’t done yet!”
I suspect Trump's support -- especially in Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states where Ted Cruz performed well in the primaries -- was tempered by the utter (and understandable) dislike a lot of Americans have for New Yorkers.
As an incumbent instead of an upstart newcomer, Trump has to run on his record and his ideas for the next four years.
Loser says what?
Says the dweeb with zero personality who helped sink the 2012 ticket for the GOP.
Unlike Ryan who was a loser due to his lack of leadership...
Can someone explain how Ryan the know nothing became speaker of the house? I’ve never understood how that happened. He was not the senior congressman, had never accomplished much, other than a failed VP run.
Yet there he was Judas to the republicans.
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