Pence backs House Speaker Ryan, breaking with Trump

John McCain said Wednesday he’s sticking by his pledge to support Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential nominee despite a series of Trump comments that have brought rebukes from top Republicans, including McCain himself.

Trump’s slap at two of the nation’s most prominent Republicans escalated GOP turmoil barely a week after a convention meant to promote party unity.

McCain has also criticized Trump in recent weeks for his statements that he might not back North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who haven’t been fulfilling their financial obligations to the alliance.

Trump has had wide support from Republicans in Arizona, winning the state’s presidential preference race with 47 percent of the vote.

The speaker said it is his duty to speak up against Trump on issues like the Khan family or his criticism of an American-born judge of Mexican descent whom Trump had also attacked. “I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her”, she said. “We need fighters in this country”. “For people who are on the fence, he’s very credible”.

Asked about Paul Nehlen, his primary opponent, who is telling voters that the speaker is aligned with Clinton, Ryan didn’t mention him by name, but said he is “making stuff up to try and make it stick”.

The next day, Pence said he “strongly” endorsed Ryan.

“We’ve never been this united”, he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida. Kelly Ayotte in the same interview with the Washington Post. Ryan told WTAQ, “I don’t know what the line is”.

“I don’t like doing this”. “As many marriages as (Trump’s) had and as good as his kids are, I suspect he’s had people tell him “We’re not going to agree on this” or ‘I see it differently'”. President Barrack Obama urged the Republicans to reconsider Mr. Trump’s candidacy and called on the established Republicans to withdraw their endorsements.

IN governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence told several hundred supporters that Donald Trump if elected president would repeal President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act and strengthen the economy.

The trio each chided Trump for engaging in a flap with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after his death in 2004.

For Republicans, renouncing Trump might not yield much benefit beyond ensuring more headlines connecting them to Trump, something most want to avoid. Both had been among Trump’s harshest critics in the wake of his comments about the Khan family, particular McCain, a former prisoner of war who said Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”.

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