Ryan’s break from Trump prompts talk of GOP rebellion

Ryan, 46, was his party’s 2012 vice presidential candidate and many think he could run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2020 or beyond.

“If there’s a backlash against the bad nature of the campaign, there could be real public pressure to let her get a few things done”, Norman J. Ornstein, a scholar of Congress at the American Enterprise Institute, told me. Trump is the product of their colossal miscalculations. They seem to be under the impression that their only problem is a unusual interloper by the name of Donald Trump, and they couldn’t be more wrong. Its trajectory will now be divided between Before the Video (BV) and After the Video (AV).

In a darker scenario, “Republicans will decide that they want to replay what they did in 2010 and 2014 – delegitimize the president and block whatever they can”, Ornstein said. Then Darryl Glenn, a Republican candidate running for a Colorado Senate seat, swayed his position similarly.

Taking control of the Senate is well within the Democrats’ reach. Republicans now hold 55 seats in the Senate, meaning that Democrats would have to win five seats from Republicans (if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency and her running mate, Tim Kaine, in his role as vice president, becomes the president of the Senate) to retake the Senate. — the extreme risks a Trump nomination created for the country would be justified by some post-Trump breakthrough for the common good. “Disloyal R’s (Republicans) are far more hard than Crooked Hillary”. So instead they will get Donald Trump railing against an establishment dolchstoss, a stab in the back, from the moment the polls close November 8 until he either wins the 2020 nomination or draws his dying breath.

Speaking to a crowd of about 100 students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Republican student organization, Ryan focused on House Republicans’ legislative priorities and only alluded a few times to the presidential election. Ryan did not withdraw his endorsement, after all.

The partys leaders were afraid Trump would rage against them if they denied him the nomination; instead, he is raging against them for refusing to go to the mat for his caught-on-tape misogyny and pornographic boasts. One, conducted September 27-29 for the Albuquerque Journal, had Clinton at 35 percent, Trump at 31 percent, and Johnson at 24 percent.

For his part, Trump has lashed out at the speaker for telling his members Monday morning that he’s done defending the real estate mogul, criticizing him at his rallies and suggesting in an interview on Fox News he won’t be speaker next year.

The planned expenditures come as Republicans have expressed concerns that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s faltering presidential campaign could hurt congressional candidates.

Trump’s fiasco, in the meantime, has eased coordination problems on the Democratic side.

“When Hillary Clinton says we are ‘stronger together, ‘ what she means is we are stronger if we are all subject to the state”, Ryan said. Down-ballot Democrats anxious that a narrow focus on Trump’s deficiencies might not be helpful to the rest of the party. “Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States, and now we know that Ryan and Walker are supporting a candidate who lacks the basic human decency voters require in their commander in chief”. “She’s shifting her resources to secure Congress for her radical liberal agenda”, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the fundraising arm of House Republicans, wrote in a Thursday fundraising email.

“It’s possible to imagine, but it’s unlikely”, Democratic pollster Mark Mellman said. The operation was supported by large expenditures from the very rich. While her Tucson-area district is around one-fourth Hispanic, Republicans have considered her a star of the outgoing Congress’ freshman class and the $6.1 million she’s reported raising is almost seven times what her Democratic challenger has collected.