Paul Ryan demands Trump denounce racism

Trump got his largest response when he spoke about building a wall between the USA and Mexico, protecting gun rights and “saying Merry Christmas again”.

The New York Republican predicted GOP anxiety about Trump will fade, “because Hillary Clinton is the big uniter”.

But Luis Alvarado, a Los Angeles-based Republican strategist, said he would advise many of his clients to distance themselves from a candidate who would keep many GOP donors on the sidelines and bring throngs of Democrat-leaning Latinos to the polls. “It’s turned into a kind of one-upmanship on insulting”.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered this twist: “I will vote for whoever the Republican nominee is going to be”. “I disavowed David Duke the day before at a press conference”.

Many Washington Republicans are increasingly open about their dismay at the prospect of Trump winning the GOP nomination. Sen.

For Ryan, it marked the second time this election cycle the new Speaker denounced remarks made by Trump. “…You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about”. “We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent”.

Ryan rarely addresses developments in the presidential race.

Sen. Ben Sasse, a freshman Republican from Nebraska, announced Sunday night he would not support Trump if he became the nominee.

“When I see something that runs counter to who we are as a party and a country”, Ryan said, “I will speak up”.

The GOP presidential frontrunner also is hitting Rubio for his sudden turn to negative campaigning.

In recent days Trump has begun to win over a few mainstream acolytes including Alabama Sen.

The controversy has proved a distraction for Trump as he remains the favorite to win the overwhelming majority of contests on Super Tuesday, when 11 states award 595 delegates in the Republican primary contest.

Ryan was the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012.

Ryan said he hopes “this is the last time I need to speak out on this race”. “We appeal to their highest ideals”, Ryan said.

We find Trump’s view on Latinos, Muslims, immigration and the media going beyond the discourse of confronting some serious issues and on the border of scapegoating. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “I was working on my wife”, Jane.

“It’s not as if there’s a wave of good feeling around members of Congress or governors who all of a sudden are standing on principle in opposition to Trump’s candidacy”, Schmidt said.

Republican and Democratic office-holders alike have criticized Trump after he repeatedly declined to disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on a national Sunday TV show. “What I heard was ‘various groups.’ And I don’t mind disavowing anybody and I disavowed David Duke”. He told the network at one point that “there’s nobody who’s done so much for equality as I have”.

Ryan added, in reference to his party, “We believe all people are created equal in the eyes of God and our government”. “The future of our party, of our conservative cause in the republic is at stake – I’m not interested in playing games, either”.