Defiant Trump fires back at Ryan
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FOUR weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump battled yesterday to keep the Republican Party in line, leveling fresh criticism at GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan after Ryan effectively abandoned hopes of Trump winning the White House.
The GOP nominee said — inaccurately — that every poll declared him the winner of the weekend’s second presidential debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump complained, however, that he was being held back by Ryan and other congressional Republicans who are stepping away from him in hopes of keeping their congressional majorities.
“Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!” Trump tweeted.
And then: “Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.”
That was a reference to a telephone conference call on Monday in which Ryan made his position clear. He got some pushback from Trump supporters, but other Republicans clearly agree with the speaker.
While Trump’s candidacy has long exposed the party’s divisions, GOP leaders had hoped to prevent an all-out civil war until after the election. But intraparty bickering has accelerated since last week’s release of a videotape of Trump showing the former reality television star using predatory language regarding women 11 years ago.
The chaos only deepened after Ryan followed Trump’s Sunday night debate performance by essentially conceding a Clinton victory, saying he would devote his energy to ensuring she doesn’t get a “blank check” with a Democratic-controlled Congress, people on his private conference call with GOP House members said. The head of the Republican National Committee veered in the opposite direction, declaring his full coordination with Trump’s embattled campaign.
Forty Republican senators and congressmen have revoked their support for Trump — with nearly 30 of them urging him to quit the race altogether in recent days. Few of these were ever passionate Trump supporters, but the disarray underscores the predicament Republicans are in a month from the vote.
GOP officials fear Trump’s comments about women will drag down their own electoral prospects, if not stain the Republican brand for a generation. Others see no way for Republicans in some races to win without the backing of Trump’s loyal supporters.
Trump apologized during the debate but also dismissed his comments about groping women without their permission as mere “locker room talk.”
Clinton, for her part, touted new ideas yesterday to provide tax relief for families with young children. Her plan would double the Child Tax Credit and provide low-income families more money in refunds.
The “new tax credit will make their lives a little bit easier and help restore fairness to our economy,” she said.
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