Trump Expected to Endorse Ryan Friday

“An improving week”, campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Friday on Fox News.

Khizr Khan, a Pakistani immigrant whose son died in a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2004, pricked Trump by telling the Democratic National Convention on Thursday last week that Trump has “sacrificed nothing, and no one”, for the country.

It’s not clear that Ryan is keen to receive Trump’s endorsement. And when asked, Trump campaign staffers offered the real-life equivalent of a shruggy emoji despite continued reports that high profile Republicans were plotting an intervention, and that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus was almost apoplectic.

“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory”.

Trump’s use of the phrase “not quite there yet”, echoed Ryan’s own hesitancy to back Trump. John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in their primaries but he lashed out at all three as weak or ineffectual.

This freakish outburst comes shortly after the billionaire called Mrs Clinton “the devil” in an interview with Fox News.

Yet there are powerful forces keeping Republican leaders like Mr. Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the fold. He repeatedly told Wisconsin radio stations in recent days that he’s only seeking endorsements from the voters in his district, and a Ryan aide said he hadn’t received word as of early Friday afternoon of Trump’s plans.

This might be the first time Trump gets booed at one of his own rallies.

On Tuesday, Trump then came out saying he wasn’t ready to back Ryan over Nehlen, his challenger in Tuesday’s upcoming Republican primary in Wisconsin for Ryan’s congressional seat.

Eager to change their minds, Trump unleashed a slew of insults at Clinton during his Iowa rally.

“All my life I’ve been told, ‘You have the greatest temperament, ‘” he said in Des Moines.

He also rejected the idea that as a party leader, he needed to make a moral judgment on the party’s nominee.

“In one way, she’s a monster”, he said in Wisconsin.

“That’s what it was; her weakness, her weak policies”.

And she did what she has rarely done during the presidential campaign: take questions from reporters.

Hillary Clinton acknowledged Friday the challenge she would face leading a country where most Americans don’t trust her, saying she takes “seriously” the work she must do to build confidence in her character. “He made a deal with the devil. She’s the devil”, the Republican presidential nominee said.

Clinton conceded that she had “short-circuited” earlier in the week in interviews when she had asserted that Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey had concluded that she had been truthful in her statements about use of the private server. Clinton suggested she would develop a different deportation approach. “So in our shared mission, to make America great again, I support and endorse our speaker of the House, Paul Ryan”. She added, “I’m going to work my heart out in this campaign and as president to produce results for people”.

Peoples reported in Washington.

POLITICO anonymously surveyed GOP professionals – activists, strategists, and various other campaign operatives – that have worked on a variety of Republican campaigns in 11 swing states, and found that a whopping 70 PERCENT of them want The Donald to drop out of the race RIGHT NOW!

Trump declined this week to endorse Ryan and earlier praised Nehlen for his support.