Republican Wisconsin Assembly speaker calls out Trump

Republican nominee Donald Trump limped into Wisconsin on Friday and belatedly endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan and 2008 nominee Sen. Ryan believes North Atlantic Treaty Organisation “is as important now as I would say it’s been in my lifetime”, while Trump recently suggested the United States would only come to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies’ defense if “they fulfill their obligations to us”. It was a remarkable breach of protocol for the party’s White House nominee to withhold support from its most powerful member of Congress.

Ryan reiterated his support for Trump hours before the endorsement, but the Wisconsin Republican noted his support wasn’t a “blank check” and pledged to speak out against the businessman’s divisive positions if necessary.

Nehlen, who has attracted the support of Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter, has endorsed Trump’s presidential campaign, and has similarly focused his campaign on trade and immigration.

Ryan’s office has said the Speaker doesn’t plan to attend the Trump rally. 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). “He’s a good man. We may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree”. John McCain and Kelly Ayotte – after initially declining to do so and in the case of McCain, assailing him repeatedly.

“I’m suggesting we have a discussion about it – that’s for sure”. Trump added that he holds McCain “in the highest esteem”, despite never offering a straight apology for questioning McCain’s status as a war hero last summer.

“I am just going to rise above this stuff”, he said. The fix wasn’t in when Trump decided, during the convention speech by Pat Smith, who lost her son in the Benghazi attacks, to call in to the Bill O’Reilly show.

Ryan faces a challenge from the right next Tuesday in the Wisconsin primary.

Absent from the event will be the state’s Republican governor Scott Walker who said he will viewing flood damage in northern Wisconsin. In addition to Trump’s no-regrets feud with a Gold Star family, his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. But to have a hope of carrying Wisconsin and the country in November, Trump will need to do well in blue-collar, swing regions like Green Bay and the Fox Valley. Ted Cruz, and his enduring friction with GOP leaders there does not bode well for him in what is already one of the toughest presidential battleground states for any Republican.