Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:58 pm
While offering to step down as co-chairman of the Republican convention, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted that the Republican Party is disunified.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:
“He’s the nominee. I’ll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention,” Ryan said when asked about that scenario in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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“I just want to get to know the guy … we just don’t know each other,” said Ryan, who delivered a political bombshell last Thursday when he said he wasn’t ready yet to support his party’s presumptive nominee.
“I never said never. I just said (not) at this point. I wish I had more time to get to know him before this happened. We just didn’t,” he said.
“We have right now a disunified Republican Party. We shouldn’t sweep it under the rug without addressing it. That would be to our detriment in the fall,” said Ryan, speaking in an interview that had been scheduled before Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee.
The Republican Party is not going to unify around Donald Trump, and even Paul Ryan can’t massage the truth enough to sell Trump as a good thing for the GOP. If Trump puts Ryan in a support me or else situation, Speaker Ryan will probably walk away from his co-chair position at the Republican convention.
In many ways, it looks like Ryan is searching for a way out of this mess. It is doubtful that anything is going to come out of the Trump/Ryan meeting. Trump will oversell the meeting as the greatest gathering since the Malta Conference, and Ryan will say some nice sounding things that mean nothings.
Paul Ryan and the truth are not close friends, but in this case, even Speaker Ryan can’t avoid the conclusion that the Republican Party is falling apart and heading for defeat.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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