Pence brushes off question about GOP candidate endorsements

Others in the GOP also criticized Trump and some influential Republicans – not Ryan – announced their support for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has sought to turn the tables on House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., by withholding his support from the congressman in his race for re-election.

Nehlen, who has been running a longshot bid ahead of Tuesday’s election, got a burst of attention this week after Trump delivered a series of hits against Ryan.

On Monday, McCain, a Vietnam war hero, issued a lengthy statement denouncing Trump for his comments about the Khan family.

Ryan has disagreed with Trump on several key issues – including his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States – and issued a statement over the weekend that indirectly took issue with Trump’s belittling of the parents of dead Army captain Humayun Khan.

Trump responded by suggesting that Khan’s wife, Ghazala Kahn, who stood on stage with him, was forbidden from speaking due to their Muslim faith.

Trump also claimed Ryan had asked for his support, something Ryan’s aides denied.

The Hewlett-Packard executive says in a statement Tuesday night that Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character”.

“I’m just not quite there yet”, he told the Washington Post- exactly what Ryan initially said about Trump.

With the Arizona state flag in the background, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence answers a question at a campaign rally Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Phoenix.

Trump’s phrasing – “I’m not quite there yet” – echoes comments Ryan made to CNN’s Jake Tapper in May when he said he wasn’t yet ready to back his party’s standard-bearer.

Donald Trump can not win the White House if he fails to expand his support beyond the bulwark of rural, Southern, and non-college educated white men who polls show formed the bedrock of his support both before and after the Republican and Democratic conventions. And I’m just not quite there. Yet thus far, McCain, Ryan and other Republicans who’ve reluctantly declared that they plan to back Trump for president appear to be sticking with him.

“Well, it’s morally disqualifying because when did – when did Speaker Ryan ever attack Mr. Obama or Hillary Clinton on any of her policies the way he’s attacking Donald Trump right now”.

“I didn’t support him”.

Meanwhile, New York Rep. Richard Hanna announced he will vote for Clinton in an editorial on Syracuse.com, saying Trump is “deeply flawed in endless ways”.