Ryan said he’s confident GOP voters will not nominate Trump for president in 2024.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan placed the blame for Republicans’ underperformance during the midterm elections squarely at the feet of former President Donald Trump, calling himself a “never-again Trumper” in a new interview that adds to the growing chorus of prominent Republicans accusing the former president of negatively influencing the election.... [+]Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
The party would have won more races had their candidates been “typical traditional conservative Republicans” rather than “Trump Republicans,” Ryan said, pointing to consequential Senate contests the GOP lost in Arizona, where incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly defeated Trump-endorsed Blake Masters , and Pennsylvania, where Lt. Gov. John Fetterman beat Trump-backed Mehmet Oz, to flip the seat for Democrats.
Ryan noted the string of Republican losses in recent years that Trump was involved in: The GOP lost majority control of the House of Representatives in 2018, lost the Senate and the presidential election in 2020 “and now, in 2022, we should have and could have won the Senate . . . and we have a much lower majority in the House.”
Ryan predicted Republicans would lose the 2024 presidential election if Trump won the party’s nomination and said he is confident voters will select another candidate.Trump, who announced his intent to run for president for a third time in 2024, has faced backlash from GOP power players in the weeks since the midterm election over his chosen candidates’ failures to win races. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen.
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