Donald Trump expected to finally endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan for reelection

He officially announced his endorsement for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

“I also fully support and endorse Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, a state I truly love”, he said. On Friday night, Trump tried hard to make amends as his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, tried to take advantage of his gaffe-filled week.

He also called Ayotte “weak” and claimed to be beating her in polls, although the two are not competing and the senator has higher favorable numbers than Trump.

It was the same phrase used by Mr Ryan before he finally endorsed the Republican presidential candidate. “Very important, we’ll work together”.

But now the Republican presidential nominee says he is on board and gave his support in hopes of healing a deepening rift within the party.

Trump also told the Post that he has “always had a hard time” with McCain because he felt he had not done enough for veterans and criticized Ayotte for not wanting to associate with him despite how well he did in New Hampshire. Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos offered a blunt message ahead of the presidential nominee’s arrival: “We are Ryan Republicans here in Wisconsin, not Trump Republicans”. “I believe we need Paul Ryan in leadership in the Congress of the United States”.

“We need unity – we have to win this election”, Mr Trump said during a campaign stop in Green Bay, Wisconsin – Mr Ryan’s home state.

“I’m not quite there yet”, Trump said in the interview, using nearly identical language as Ryan in May while still hedging on endorsing the real estate mogul. For now, however, it’s sticking – and now that Trump has endorsed Ryan, perhaps things will move more smoothly going forward.

Mr Ryan and San McCain had both criticised Mr Trump’s attacks on the bereaved parents of a US Muslim soldier killed in Iraq.

Ryan told WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes, a Wisconsin talk radio host, on Friday morning that he hadn’t spoken with Trump since the Republican convention ended last month. Mr. Ryan had no plans to attend the event, in a sign of lingering frictions between them. Seriously, as president, this guy would nuke Puerto Rico as a solution for its debt crisis, then three days later be confused as to why he can no longer vacay at the island’s Trump International Golf Club (which for the record, filed for bankruptcy).

“If Hillary Clinton becomes president”, he said, “you will have really, in my opinion, the destruction of this country from within”. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Still, Ryan’s campaign said in a statement “he appreciates the gesture”.

“The only endorsement that I want are those of my own employers here in the first congressional district”, Ryan said Thursday.