GOP Sen. Fischer backs Trump despite call to step aside

I’ve never thought that Ryan’s support was crucial for Trump. Mooney tweeted about Trump’s performance at the presidential debate Sunday night.

Discipline collapsed after Paul Ryan, the Speaker in the House of Representatives, cut his ties with the Trump campaign.

The release of that video caused many ranking Republicans to denounce Trump’s comments, and more than a few Republican members of Congress to proclaim that they would not vote for their party’s nominee. They don’t know how to win – I will teach them!’

Trump condemned the Republicans who have backed away from his White House run in a barrage of stinging Twitter posts, deepening a dramatic rift in the party over his struggling campaign.

Bradley Byrne have all re-joined the Trump coalition despite declaring last weekend that they’d had enough of Trump’s behavior.

“I don’t feel that Ryan is supporting our nominee and being a team player”, said Mosbacher, who is vowing not to give financial backing to Republicans who have crossed Trump.

Following the release of the video, Mr Trump initially said he was sorry “if anyone was offended” by the “locker room banter”.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he was “really disturbed” by Trump’s misogynist comments, but would still support him because the election was “about bigger issues than that”.

On Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican lawmakers on a conference call that he would not campaign with Trump and would instead focus exclusively on protecting the GOP House majority.

The billionaire businessman, in securing the Republican nomination and then later in his campaign to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has gotten into public fights with a federal judge of Mexican heritage; the parents of a soldier killed in Iraq; and a former Miss Universe beauty queen as well as Muslims. In what is widely viewed as evidence of a widening rift in the Republican Party, Trump went on to bash Ryan as a “very weak and ineffective leader” and label Democrats-“with the exception of cheating Bernie”-as “far more loyal to each other” than Republicans”.

“I don’t want his support, I don’t care about his support”, Mr Trump said.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who also supported Ryan then, hinted in an interview with The Associated Press that he might not favor keeping Ryan in the House’s top job.

According to FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast, Clinton has an 83 percent chance of winning the election, compared to Trump’s 16 percent.

Meanwhile campaigners have called on the makers of the United States version of “The Apprentice” to release more footage rumoured to show Mr Trump making offensive remarks.