Paul Ryan makes final push in advance of Tuesday primary

With the primary less than 24 hours away, a just-completed Remington Research Poll showed that among likely GOP voters district wide, Ryan led challenger Paul Nehlen by a whopping 80 percent to 14 percent. The nine-term Ryan is a heavy favorite to win Tuesday’s contest.

Ryan has also tried to downplay the challenge.

The election didn’t appear to be on the minds of the workers he met with Monday, either.

Nehlen’s longshot bid against Ryan garnered more attention this week after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump thanked him on Twitter for his support. Last week on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time program, Ryan said he doesn’t plan to vote on the deal during this fall’s lame-duck session of Congress.

The retired sergeant major said if the policies supported by Speaker Paul D. Ryan continue those cells and their activities will grow and mature and become an even greater danger.

Ryan referred to Trump by name only once, when defending the need for free trade agreements.

After months of heavy contention between Trump and Ryan, the move suggests efforts to bring the party together.

Ryan will visit two local businesses – A&E Tools in Racine, and Ocenco in Pleasant Prairie – to speak with employees. “It’s his job to work on behalf of foreigners, before Americans”, Nehlen said.

“I think the way it influences me the most is that people all generally have the same motivation”, Solen says. Coulter was introduced by the emcee as “one of the most intelligent women in the United States of America, and my wife said I could say this: she’s also incredibly attractive”. How many are Packers fans? He went so far as to decline endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has endorsed him.

Lake Effect’s Mitch Teich talks with Wisconsin’s first congressional district candidate Ryan Solen.

Ryan didn’t take questions from reporters at either stop.

“If someone is supporting Sharia, that is doing something wrong”, he said.

“Nehlen’s campaign has been a lot of sound but not much fury”, Cameron Sholty, communications director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and a longtime conservative activist, told me on Sunday. “He represents Wall Street donors”.

Tom Breu, a plumbing engineer from Janesville, is the other Democrat vying for the nomination.