Paul Ryan, GOP Establishment Plot to Supplant Trump With Youngkin, DeSantis in 2024

National File ^ | October 15, 2022 | FRANKIE STOCKES

[SoConPubbie]

The GOP Establishment is plotting to supplant 45th President Donald J. Trump on the party’s 2024 ticket with Glenn Youngkin, Ron DeSantis, or even Tim Scott, says Paul Ryan, who left Washington after being overpowered by the America First wing of the GOP.

Ex-GOP Speaker of the House and failed Romney running mate Paul Ryan told a “closed conference” of corporate heads this week that the party’s 2024 presidential nominee will be “someone other than Donald Trump.”

“I think Trump’s un-electability will be palpable by then,” Ryan said at the corporate conference, predicting that the GOP establishment will push Trump aside when the time is right.

“There’s a handful of people that are going to run because it’s the only cycle they can run in. They can’t wait until 2028,” Ryan said.

“Whether he runs or not, I don’t really know if it matters,” he said of President Trump. “He’s not going to be the nominee.”

Though he’s left Washington, Ryan is still a leading establishment figure and maintains close ties to GOP insiders and elected officials.

He was photographed at the inauguration of Glenn Youngkin as Governor of Virginia with senior Ted Cruz advisor Jeff Roe.

Ryan says that Youngkin is one of his top picks for President in 2024.

Along with Glenn Youngkin, anti-Trump pollster and Kevin McCarthy landlord Frank Luntz, who was recently in Britain lobbying for war with Russia, says that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott are Ryan’s top presidential picks.

Paul Ryan's top 3 picks for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination:

1. Ron DeSantis
2. Glenn Youngkin
3. Tim Scott https://t.co/ds7sBjQaYr

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 14, 2022

While Ron DeSantis has been floated by the Fox News crowd as the GOP’s pick for 2024, and Tim Scott has given speeches to small crowds in Iowa, many within the uni-party establishment have called for Glenn Youngkin to run for President as a Trump “alternative” in 2024.

The Governor and his office have refused to give a straight answer about his 2024 ambitions to the press, including to National File.

But according to recent polling data, President Trump blows Glenn Youngkin out in 2024, including in his home state of Virginia.

In a post to Truth Social blasting Youngkin’s 2024 prospects and attaching the poll’s blow-out results, President Trump wrote that he “helped him get elected – Big time…the people know!”

Related: WaPo, GOP ‘Megadonors’ Push Glenn Youngkin for President in 2024 as ‘Alternative’ to Trump

At the closed corporate conference, Paul Ryan reportedly advised a group of CEO’s to lay low on their pushing of woke corporate ESG policies for a while, to avoid a backlash from conservatives.

Short for “Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance,” ESG policies have been described as a far-left takeover of the business world.

Before he was elected Governor of Virginia with Ryan’s backing, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin boasted to the World Economic Forum at Davos that he was leading the charge on implementing ESG policies at the Carlyle Group, where he was then a co-CEO.

[JonPreston]

I’ll be siting that one out.

[EEGator]

Primaries are for us to decide.
We have elected representatives, not leaders.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Lots of FReeSantis folks here would like to get on board with Ryan…

[Starboard]

Though he’s left Washington, Ryan is still a leading establishment figure and maintains close ties to GOP insiders and elected officials.

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He never really left Washington. Ryan will be pulling McCarthy’s strings and will soon be the de facto Speaker.

[GOPJ]

Trump can form his own party... Fastest way to get rid of all RINO’s is to have all of us leave the Republican party. Paul Ryan doesn’t like us? Fine. We’ll leave.

[bray]

Republicans have two choices, win ugly or lose graciously. The Country Club is very gracious.

[9YearLurker]

Youngkin is Ray Dalio’s longtime lieutenant.

That makes him Mr. CIA/CCP.

[Digger]

If voter fraud is not eliminated there will be no (R) as prez anyway.

[Starboard]

Ryan fancies himself a king maker but lacked the ability to become one himself. He was a pitiful Speaker and failed VP candidate.

[EEGator]

Lots of people here are divisive troublemakers, like you.

[Starboard]

Fastest way to get rid of all RINO’s is to have all of us leave the Republican party.

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There are millions of people who would jump at the opportunity to have a real party IMO.

Just imagine...a party that actually stands for something. what a wonderful thing that would be.

[DugwayDuke]

From the article: ““I think Trump’s un-electability will be palpable by then,”

If Trump keeps meeting with white supremicists and insisting on terminating the constitution, Ryan is probably right.

[odawg]

Yes. Ryan has crowned himself kingmaker, as in emperor without any clothes.

[Tommy Revolts]

If that were to happen, it would be a monumental shellacking of the Republicans.

[Tommy Revolts]

There’s one way to stop the Democrats from cheating.

[Hattie]

Amen. Voter fraud will null and void any Republican candidate.

[Terry L Smith]

I am a Trump man. No one else would be good for the country.

[Mr Rogers]

Voters will decide. I know I prefer either DeSantis or Youngkin or Abbott or one of several others to Trump. My circle of friends are mostly evangelicals. None are willing to vote for Trump in the 2024 primary after voting for him in 2016 & 2020. We all voted for the Trump slate here in Arizona...but we won’t vote for Trump in the primary. Several won’t vote for him again if he wins the primary.

He did something special in 2016. He deserved to be re-elected in 2020. But he’ll have to EARN the nomination and it isn’t just the establishment types who are not rallying to Trump now.

He lost me on election night when he boasted about what a great night HE had. He lost the others attacking DeSantis, then Youngkin, then saying Kari Lake should be installed as Governor, then saying HE should be declared the winner of 2020: “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

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“Kari Lake should be installed Governor of Arizona,” Trump said. “This is almost as bad as the 2020 Presidential Election, which the [House] Unselect Committee refuses to touch because they know it was Fraudulent!”

https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/trump-demands-kari-lake-be-installed-as-arizona-governor/

“So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”

[Tommy Revolts]

Sounds like the propaganda is working.