Trump Finally Endorses Paul Ryan

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin/WASHINGTON Republican Donald Trump took steps to steer his White House campaign back into favour with his party establishment on Friday by endorsing U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and two Republican senators seeking re-election, after expressing coolness towards them earlier this week.

An aide to Ryan said Friday, “He appreciates the gesture and is going to continue to focus on earning the endorsement of the voters in southern Wisconsin”.

“In our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan” Trump told supporters at a rally at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wis. “Paul Ryan”.

Donald Trump Friday endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sens.

The Trump endorsement culminates a week in which both men traded insults. He also endorsed U.S. Sens.

Trump also chose to endorse Arizona Senator John McCain, the party’s 2008 nominee, in his congressional re-election campaign, after refusing to do so earlier. Ted Cruz in the state’s early-April primary, arguably Trump’s biggest loss of the season.

“And while I’m at it, I hold in the highest esteem Sen. We have to make them”, Trump said, referring to his sudden change of heart.

Trump was immediately slammed for not endorsing the Republicans, particularly Ryan, and he has attacked McCain several times during the campaign, including his record as a POW in Vietnam. Earlier this week, the Trump campaign announced more than $80 million in fundraising from last month, but sources told CBS News that after Trump’s week of missteps, fundraising has stalled.

Trump had balked at endorsing Ryan on Tuesday in an interview with The Washington Post, a move that intensified concerns about his presidential campaign within the GOP as Trump already faced controversy over his criticism over the weekend of the parents of an American soldier killed in combat.

Trump’s refusal to back Ryan in a Washington Post interview on Tuesday had stunned Republicans already unnerved by his unorthodox candidacy for president.

“We need more effective spending and Trump wants to do that – to have stronger finances for the country”, he said.

“I may have short circuited and for that I will try to clarify”, Clinton said, though still insisting that she “never sent or received anything that was marked classified”.

Nehlen had released a statement defending Trump amid criticism over his remarks about the Muslim parents of a slain US solider.

Trump’s approach to national security came under fire Friday as well, with former CIA Director Michael Morell contending the Republican nominee would make “a poor, even unsafe commander in chief”. But he also stressed the importance of unifying the GOP. With regard to immigration, Ryan recently said “we have to come up with a solution that doesn’t involve mass deportation”, but mass deportation of undocumented immigrants is exactly what Trump wants to do.

Trump has been expressing his outrage about a $400-million (360-million-euro) payment the USA made to Iran earlier this year, which was delivered on the same day Iran released four Americans they had detained.

“We finally thought we had a voice to stand up against the RINO establishment”.