Ryan also easily out-distances both presidential candidates, each of whom remain deeply unpopular in the district with Trump’s image at 34% favorable and 62% unfavorable and Clinton’s image at 34% favorable and 59% unfavorable. “I think he could be more supportive to the Republican nominee”, Trump told ABC on Monday night.
Just over a year ago, Meadows, a mild-mannered second term lawmaker who was anxious Boehner wasn’t taking a hard line in spending negotiations with the White House, threatened to force a no-confidence vote that might have succeeded. He says, “You are gonna win Wisconsin”‘.
Last week, Ryan didn’t mention Trump’s name but instead gave an entire speech focused on attacking Clinton and what he described as the threat of a progressive agenda in Washington.
On the other side, Trump’s campaign dramatically expanded its ad buys in seven battleground states and announced plans to launch a $2 million advertising blitz in long-shot Virginia.
In an interview Monday, Trump said Russian Federation “can’t stand” either Democrat. Under pressure from close Ryan ally and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Trump eventually endorsed Ryan and it seemed that the two camps had finally reached detente.
The tweets showed Trump continuing to play a scattershot a defense rather than make his case to voters, with just three weeks left and much ground to make up in opinion polls. Trump has since fired back on Twitter, calling Ryan a “weak leader”.
In his ongoing mission to claim that the presidential election is being rigged against him, Donald Trump said illegal voting by immigrants might have won North Carolina for President Barack Obama in 2008.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine already has campaigned in Georgia, stopping at a community festival to urge Latinos to register to vote, and recently did an interview with a Utah television station. Yet if he stands by Trump, he’ll be accused of backing off his decision to avoid defending the GOP nominee.
Campaigning in Colorado, the GOP candidate repeated his assertions about “corrupt” elections but did not respond directly to the president.
Trump also seems unlikely to take the state: The RealClearPolitics average of polls in a four-way race shows Trump trailing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by almost 7 points, and Wisconsin hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984. But with Wednesday’s debate approaching, Trump and his campaign have had trouble sticking to the message. It was not the process itself that was rigged, Trump clearly states, but the covert influence peddling and duplicity of a biased media skewing information for voters while trying to keep the Democratic contender free of mud.
Trump appeared to take personal satisfaction for his popularity in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin.
The Republican is hoping to turn the conversation away from the allegations of sexual misconduct that partly dominated his last debate against Clinton.