Posted on 08/03/2016 12:06:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
As Donald Trump holds off endorsing House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in Wisconsin's Republican primary, his running mate enthusiastically endorsed Ryan on Wednesday, calling him a “longtime friend” and “strong conservative leader.”
“I strongly support Paul Ryan, strongly endorse his reelection,” Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said during an interview on Fox News on Wednesday afternoon. “I believe we need Paul Ryan in leadership in the Congress of the United States to rebuild our military, to strengthen our economy and to ensure that we have the kind of leadership in this country that will make America great again.”
Trump has angered his party's leadership by refusing to endorse Ryan or Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in their primary campaigns. Both Ryan and McCain have endorsed Trump but have remained critical of many of his comments, including Trump's ongoing public feud with the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in 2004. Wisconsin holds its primary Tuesday and the Arizona primary is later this month. In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, Trump praised Ryan’s underdog opponent, Paul Nehlen.
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Wasn’t going to happen. As weak as it was Ryan endorsed Trump at the convention and the ticket. DT wasn’t going to pull a Cruz here. Instead, he did exactly what Ryan did to him - let him squirm in the wind and then let his Vice Presidential pick be the man. This keeps Ryan in line and basically tells Ryan - see my “endorsement” - it’s as thin as yours was. Get out of line and your access to the President will be non-existent.
Pence should have said to Trump, “I know you picked me to placate the establishment. I feel that although I love Ryan and the globalist TPP agenda like a salivating dog, I shouldn’t endorse him. I should show unity here.”
Pence will drop out just watch. This is the sabotage that is coming
He was Trump’s Big Mistake.
“I have a very uneasy feeling about Pence. I don’t trust him. He is the GOPe plant in place for when they impeach Trump.”
Me too!
Tom Tancredo was interviewed just before the convention. He said Trump better pick a VP that the GOP hates more than him, because the first thing they’ll do is move to impeach him.
If Pence supports Ryan, he supports TPP and open borders.
I thought I read Ryan was begging for Trump’s endorsement? Maybe Ryan should have thought of that before he acted like a jerk re endorsing his own party’s nominee.
Unseating Ryan is NOT nothing. Say hello to Amnesty and TPP.
Agree with you. Politicians who know less than Trump about politics are disagreeing with DJT on many small things on a daily basis.
He is still on track, regardless the nit-picking GOPe fault-finders.
Newt is doing everything he can to stab Trump in the back. Newt WANTED that VP spot - bad.
+1
We have a schizophrenic ticket of an anti establishment Trump and a dyed in the wool TPP loving globalist hack Pence.
That makes sense, since it’s too late for any endorsement to matter and hopefully Ryan will get his okole kicked out the door anyway.
Many months ago Trump said he’s be a great uniter. (Probably the GREATEST uniter.)
Meanwhile we’re approaching the eleventh hour and he seems not to be able to unite his own team much less make coalitions of support.
The idea that after the convention a nominee would need an “intervention” is insane.
I’m just nerve wracked, stakes have never, ever been so high. I trust Trump to do the right thing, say the right thing, and hire the right people.
It’s just that the media, both parties, all the elites, and the tools of all of them, that are insanely evil and driven to destroy Trump.
Anyone know what the chances are of Ryan getting the boot? I”ve had internet problems for days.
Trump should have picked Huckabee for VP. That is what it is looking like now.
“I wish he had picked Gingrich
Gingrich would not pull this kind of crap.”
Sure he would. I heard Gingrich on the news today spouting BS about how the Trump campaign is in disarray.
He doesn’t seem any more loyal than any other career politician (which means not at all).
An unwatchable globalist TPP loving Free Trading Cheap Labor Express hag.
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