Ryan may have to watch his back after distancing from Trump

He also announced he had transferred more than $31 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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A gerrymandering of congressional districts, completed six years ago, sought to secure a Republican House majority for years to come by packing Democratic voters into fewer, often urban and minority districts and giving Republican candidates comfortable majorities in the ones they control.

“Getting people working, getting people out of poverty by providing a method and means for them to work”, Ziegler said. Yesterday, they both re-endorsed Trump’s candidacy.

Republicans now control both chambers of Congress.

Despite the fact that Trump’s entire run for the presidency has involved nearly weekly verbal assaults on individuals ranging from a disabled reporter to a beauty queen to a US senator who spent many years as a prisoner of war, it was a little surprising that this audio recording from more than a decade ago rattled the Republican Party to its core. But Ryan has not pulled his tepid support of the candidate. What is particularly troubling is that what he is doing is destructive of his own Party, at a time when Republicans need to unify and work for the American people.

With the Trump-Ryan rift grabbing headlines, the media packed into a speech Ryan had scheduled in Brookfield on Thursday.

Party officials are increasingly optimistic that Donald Trump’s flailing presidential campaign will damage fellow Republicans and give them control of the Senate-and perhaps even the House. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she continues to support the Republican presidential nominee. On Thursday, he skipped a question-and-answer session with business leaders at an event in his home state and avoided reporters. Thune said Tuesday night that he plans to vote for Trump anyway.

“I would classify this area as Republican-leaning”, he said.

Pence excited some conservative voters with his debate performance. Ted Cruz of Texas for the Republican nomination. But the release of Trump’s obscene remarks about women has led many high-profile Republicans, including Ryan, to back away from the GOP nominee. “But there’s a whole sinister deal going on”, Trump said while campaigning in Ocala, Florida.

Donald Trump is launching a kamikaze mission – fracturing his own party four weeks before Election Day. Other potential 2020 contenders, such as South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, may benefit from not being on the ballot this year, thus being spared from being asked constantly about Trump while campaigning.

In bending the knee to Trump last spring, they thought that they were buying party unity and a continued share of power, and paying for it with just a little of their decency, a mite of their patriotism, a soupçon of their honor.