Paul Ryan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz primaries to test voters" mood

Donald Trump not endorsing Paul Ryan

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are about to test voters" anti-establishment mood, firsthand.

In an election year that"s seen both parties" supporters seethe against Washington, 15 states from Florida to Arizona still have House primaries. That includes challenges against Ryan, R-Wis., and Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who abruptly resigned last week as chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Both seem likely to prevail, but surprises can happen in low-turnout summer primaries.

Here"s a look at noteworthy contests, a prelude to a November election in which Democrats will make a long-shot bid to capture House control:

Elections this year

Before this week, 31 states had held 2016 House primaries. Three incumbents lost, but none of their races supported the argument that voters want to throw the incumbents out of the House, anyway.

Rep. Renee Ellmers fell to fellow North Carolina GOP Rep. George Holding, and Virginia Republican Rep. Randy Forbes also lost, victims of court-ordered, redrawn district lines. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., was defeated in April after an indictment on federal corruption charges. He was later convicted and quit Congress.

This week

Four states held House primaries Tuesday.

In the most striking, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., a tea partyer and persistent annoyance to GOP leaders, lost his attempt for a fourth term.

Huelskamp"s contest against Roger Marshall, an obstetrician, was unusual because GOP primary challengers usually accuse incumbents of being insufficiently conservative. Marshall argued that Huelskamp"s rebelliousness got him kicked off the House Agriculture Committee, which is vital for western Kansas.

Their contest became a proxy battle between GOP conservatives and pragmatists. The anti-tax Club for Growth spent $400,000 to help Huelskamp and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus campaigned for him. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Ending Spending Action Fund, which wants to curb federal expenditures, spent big dollars against him.

Ryan"s race

Political novice Paul Nehlen wants to end Ryan"s House career after nine terms, and he"s getting help from Donald Trump. An unlikely defeat in the Aug. 9 primary would probably spell political doom for the GOP"s 2012 vice presidential candidate and potential future presidential contender.

A tattooed, motorcycle-riding businessman, Nehlen labeled the speaker "Lyin" Ryan" on Twitter. He"s attacked Ryan for favoring a Pacific trade deal and accuses him of being lax on immigration and beholden to the establishment.

Nehlen got a boost from Trump when the GOP presidential candidate said in a Tuesday interview with The Washington Post that he is "not quite there yet" in endorsing Ryan. That could be payback for Ryan saying in May that he was "just not ready" to back Trump. Ryan subsequently endorsed Trump but has criticized him frequently, and their relationship is cool.

Trump praised Nehlen this week for defending his criticism of the Muslim parents of an American soldier slain in Iraq.

Ryan campaign spokesman Zack Roday expressed confidence in a primary victory and said, "Neither Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trump"s endorsement."

Ryan has raised 12 times the $489,000 Nehlen has reported collecting. Not taking chances, Ryan is airing his third TV ad, with people waving flags and praying as Ryan tells the camera, "I am committed to securing our borders."

Wasserman Schultz"s travails

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders complained that Wasserman Schultz"s DNC, which historically has remained neutral in presidential primary season, backed his victorious Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton. Wasserman Schultz abandoned her party post as last week"s Democratic convention began after leaked emails revealed party staffers doing just what Sanders suspected.

That"s turned Wasserman Schultz"s focus to her Aug. 30 primary, where she"s opposed by upstart law professor Tim Canova. He"s backed by Sanders and has mimicked Sanders" populist style by raising huge sums from small individual contributions. That"s let Canova stay surprisingly competitive financially, raising $2.3 million compared to Wasserman Schultz"s $3.1 million.

Yet the Miami-area district favored Clinton over Sanders by 2-1 in March"s presidential primary. And Wasserman Schultz, seeking a seventh House term, gets high marks for paying attention back home.

Florida frenzy

About half of Florida"s 27 districts feature competitive primaries, including seven where incumbents are stepping down or running for the Senate:

Republican Rep. Jeff Miller is leaving a Panhandle seat so conservative that one leading competitor, State Sen. Greg Evers, raffled off an AR-15 rifle among people who "liked" his Facebook page. Another, State Rep. Matt Gaetz, backed a local sheriff who called the Black Lives Matter group "a terrorist organization."

Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown, indicted on federal fraud charges, faces strong competition in north Florida.

GOP Rep. Dan Webster, who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. John Boehner for the House speakership in 2015, is seeking a different open seat after his district became too Democratic.

The rest

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President d**k Cheney, is a favorite GOP contender for Wyoming"s open, lone House seat Aug. 16.

An Aug. 30 fight among Republicans for the northern Arizona seat of Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who"s challenging GOP Sen. John McCain.

A Sept. 13 challenge to Rep. Frank Guinta, R-N.H., perhaps the most endangered House incumbent, whom the Federal Election Commission said accepted illegal 2010 campaign contributions from his parents.

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Trump Refuses to Back Paul Ryan, John McCain in GOP Primary

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Donald Trump is testing just how far he can push his unconventional campaign without wrecking it.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a press conference at Trump National Doral on July 27, 2016, in Doral, Florida. Trump spoke about the Democratic Convention and called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton"s deleted e-mails. (Credit: Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images)

The Republican nominee shattered traditional political boundaries Tuesday when he told The Washington Post he isn"t backing House Speaker Paul Ryan or Sen. John McCain as they face primary challenges. The two leading Republicans seemingly angered Trump with their denunciation of his criticism of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier.

Trump"s comments -- delivered to a newspaper he"s banned from attending his events since mid-June -- capped a bizarre day on the campaign trail that also included asking for a crying baby to be removed from a rally and causing a stir over Purple Hart recipients.

In his interview with the Post, Trump criticized Ryan, saying, "We need very strong leadership."

"We need very, very strong leadership," Ryan said. "And I"m just not quite there yet. I"m not quite there yet."

Trump"s phrasing -- "I"m not quite there yet" -- echoes comments Ryan made to CNN"s Jake Tapper in May when he said he wasn"t yet ready to back his party"s standard-bearer. Zach Roday, a Ryan campaign spokesman, said the speaker hasn"t asked for Trump"s endorsement and is "confident in a victory next week regardless."

Trump"s comments come as he is under the most severe bipartisan fire of his campaign following his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Humayun Khan, died in Iraq in 2004. The Khans delivered one of the most powerful appearances at last week"s Democratic National Convention, where Khizr said Trump has "sacrificed nothing and no one."

Trump"s response

Trump responded by criticizing Ghazala Khan"s silence, suggesting she wasn"t allowed to speak because of her religion and saying he made plenty of sacrifices for his business.

The Republican nominee has struggled to recover from the episode as easily as he has from previous controversies. A knowledgeable GOP source told CNN some of Trump"s campaign staff -- even campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- are incredibly frustrated with the candidate. Some staffers "feel like they are wasting their time" because Trump has veered off message so much since the Democratic convention.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller rejected suggestions that Manafort is "mailing it in" as "completely erroneous." The campaign "just finished up our strongest month of fundraising to date, we"re adding talented and experienced staffers on a daily basis and Mr. Trump"s turning out bigger, more enthusiastic crowds than Hillary Clinton ever could."

Still, Trump"s challenge became clear in a series of strange moments Tuesday.

At a rally in family-friendly suburban Northern Virginia, Trump reversed the stereotype of baby-kissing politicians when he called for a wailing infant to be ejected -- spurring laughter after initially saying how much he loved babies. He also caused a stir when a military veteran gave Trump a Purple Heart, prompting Trump to say he "always wanted a Purple Heart" and this was "much easier" than serving in combat.

As the rally unfolded, President Barack Obama spoke from the White House, calling Trump "unfit for the presidency."

"The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn"t appear to have basic knowledge of critical issues in Europe, the Middle East, in Asia, means that he"s woefully unprepared to do this job," Obama said.

In an interview with Washington"s WJLA-TV, Trump said it"s Obama who is "unfit" for the Oval Office.

"He"s a terrible president," Trump said. "He"ll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country. He"s been a total disaster."

And as much of the political world looks on in horror, Trump"s supporters remain loyal, cheering him on at Tuesday"s rally in Ashburn, Virginia.

Alienation from the party

But his alienation from the rest of the party establishment only seemed to grow.

Maria Comella, a longtime aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, told CNN"s Jamie Gangel Tuesday she plans to vote for Hillary Clinton, saying Republicans are "at a moment where silence isn"t an option."

"Donald Trump has been a demagogue this whole time, preying on people"s anxieties with loose information and salacious rhetoric, drumming up fear and hatred of the "other,"" Comella said.

"Instead of trying anything remotely like unifying the country, we have a nominee who would rather pick fights because he views it as positive news coverage," she said. "It may make him media savvy, but it doesn"t make him qualified or ready to be president."

Meg Whitman, the Hewlett Packard chief executive who ran in 2010 for governor of California as a Republican, also said Tuesday she would support Clinton.

In a statement, she blasted Trump"s "demagoguery" and said his positions on immigration, the economy and foreign policy "have made it abundantly clear that he lacks both the policy depth and sound judgment required as President."

"It is clear to me that Secretary Clinton"s temperament, global experience and commitment to America"s bedrock national values make her the far better choice in 2016 for President of the United States," she said. "I urge all Republicans to reject Donald Trump this November."

The New York Times first reported Whitman"s decision Tuesday.

The comments follow Sally Bradshaw, a senior Jeb Bush advisor, who told Gangel Monday she had quit the party and would vote for Clinton if Florida was close.

"This is a time when country has to take priority over political parties. Donald Trump cannot be elected president," Bradshaw said.

Meanwhile, New York Rep. Richard Hanna announced he will vote for Clinton in an editorial on Syracuse.com, saying Trump is "deeply flawed in endless ways."

Hanna is not running for re-election so he has less at stake than other Republicans. But he"s not the only Republican moving away from Trump.

Top party leaders including Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are feeling the pressure. Though they have criticized Trump"s feud with the soldier"s family, they have yet to walk back tepid endorsements of Trump.

McCain went further than virtually any of his colleagues in a statement on Monday.

"While our Party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us," McCain said. "I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump"s statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates."

But even the Arizona senator, facing a re-election race in which he needs both pro-Trump and anti-Trump voters, did not explicitly call on Republicans to dump their nominee.

That point could yet come, should Clinton"s seven-point convention bounce solidify into a sustained polling lead.

During his news conference, Obama expanded on an emerging Democratic strategy to convince die-hard Republicans not to put a cross next to Trump"s name in November, even if they vote the rest of the GOP ticket.

"Why are you still endorsing him?"

"If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?" Obama asked. "This isn"t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe."

He went on: "There has to be a point in which you say this is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party. ...There has to come a point at which you say enough."

In another example of a scattershot campaign, Trump"s son, Eric, was drawn into a discussion about workplace behavior following the resignation of Fox News chief Roger Ailes over sexual harassment allegations.

He told CBS" Charlie Rose that said his sister Ivanka was "strong" and "powerful" and would never allow herself to be sexually harassed by her boss

The comment drew a one-word tweet from Fox News host Megyn Kelly: "Sigh."

Still despite the gathering chaos around Trump, lingering questions still surround his campaign and those who criticize him.

He is so unorthodox that it is sometimes tough for those caught up in the maelstrom to judge what is happening against a credible political scale. His antics often beg the question of whether Trump has so skewed campaign logic that he has tapped into a connection with voters that normal politicians don"t even recognize. That makes it far too early to write him off.

But equally, it"s possible America is currently watching the meltdown of the billionaire"s campaign. Perhaps the most unorthodox, unpredictable candidate ever has hit limits of political convention that even he can"t trump?

American political sages are not alone in trying to figure out the riotous election -- the world is watching too.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was cast in the role of puzzled foreigner as he stood alongside Obama in the White House.

Lee noted that often, after volatile election campaigns, a cooler atmosphere prevails and the ship of state "does not turn completely upside down" and putting his faith in the system of checks and balances.

"It is not so easy to do things, but it is not so easy to completely mess things up," he said.

Source: http://ktla.com/2016/08/03/trump-not-endorsing-paul-ryan-john-mccain-in-gop-primary/

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Paul Ryan sacrificed his integrity to Trump"s ego

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In reading into the record the names of candidates to be placed into nomination, the committee entered only Donald Trump. Then they let the vote proceed. But from the very first state, it was clear that there was more towhat Ryan had said.

The chair on stage read out Alaskas vote as 28 votes, with 11 delegates bound.

The state chair, after giving the usual go-our-state rah-rah speech, read off the vote totals: 12 votes for Ted Cruz, 11 for Trump, 5 for Marco Rubio.

The secretary then read back the results: 28 votes for Donald Trump.

It happened again in D.C., where Trump received no delegates in the election, and was awarded 19 when totals were reada result that onlyrubbedsalt in the wound generated by aparty platform which also includes language not justdenying statehood for the capitall,but stripping away what little sovereignty its now allowed.

The altered votes also hammered two other states, both of which harbored known Never Trump members. In every case, the states found that no matter how smallor nonexistentTrumps delegate count may have been when announced from the floor, it was different on stage. He got everything.

At the end of the evening, Alaska protested the change in their announced vote totals, and the carefully-protected schedule took a small hit anyway as state and RNC officialshuddled. The secret, which fell to Reince Priebus to reveal, was that Ryan had decided to use old, never-before-deployed rules in which, if only a single candidate is entered into nomination, any unbound delegate is automatically counted as going to that single candidate. Then the RNC went through all the state rules, looking for states where delegates were considered unbound after a candidate suspected his campaign.

The RNC ignored Alaskas protest that they had suspended the rule about considering candidates unbound at their state convention. The count on the stage stood: Trump 28, Alaska Voters: 0.

The odd combination, in which some states were recorded as-read and others had their votes distorted out of recognition, came across as arbitrary and vindictive. Because it was. Ryan might have chosen to go with the bluntbut straightforward rule that only Trump votes would be counted. He might have accepted the votes from all states as-read. But by implementing arcane rules that affected only a handful of states, he generated the impression that the RNC was both violating the rights of states and padding Trumps lead.

Which was true.

Its likely that Ryan chose to impose the odd combination of never-used rules expressly to cut off any effort of delegates to vote their conscience. Any delegate voting against their primary resultsmight have been unboundand automatically tallied for Trump, no matter what name they declared. And in any case, yanking the votes from a few states helped pad out Trumps lead, making his win appear more decisive and better able to withstand any last-minute rebellion.

But what it all made clear was that Ryan was willing to say anything, do anything, and twist any rule not to generate real party unity, but to create the semblance of unity, as well as toinform the delegates that they dont count. That only the RNC counts.

And the RNC now belongs to Trump.

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/20/1550194/-Paul-Ryan-sacrificed-integrity-to-Trump-s-ego

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Paul Nehlen Calls for Removal of Paul Ryan"s "Dishonest" TV Ads

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At a press conference held in front of Kenosha News, Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen demanded that House Speaker Paul Ryan take down his deceptive Wisconsin TV ads, in which Ryan claims hes trying to keep Islamic terrorists from entering the country.

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Nehlen blasted Paul Ryan for using open borders blood money from his globalist donors to fund the ad, which seemed designed to dupe Wisconsin voters into thinking that Ryan wants to curb Muslim migration.

Im here today to discuss Paul Ryans latest lie to the people of Wisconsin on behalf of furthering the interests of his donors, Nehlen said to reporters from one of the biggest newspapers in Wisconsins first congressional district. [Ryans] ad is a dishonest disgrace. It flies in the face of everything Ryan has done throughout his lifelong career in Washington. I am here today to call on Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately.

Nehlen explained that far from working to keep Islamic terrorists out of the country, Ryan voted to expand Islamic migration into the United States.Ryan voted tofund visas for nearly 300,000 permanent and temporary Muslim migrants in a single year.

Nehlen said that Ryans decision to lie to Wisconsin voters with his new ad is indicative of the disdain Ryan and his donors have for Wisconsin voters.

This 30-second TV ad embodies exactly what Paul Ryan thinks of his Wisconsin constituents. He thinks youre stupid, Nehlen said. He thinks he can betray us time and time again, and we will never catch on. He and his donors share a chuckle at our expense as they spend millions crafting ads to dupe us into re-installing a Congressman who will go right back to Washington and sell out our country and sell out our childrens futures.

Nehlen said that Ryans dishonest ads are being paid for by his open borders blood money:

Reports show that Paul Ryan has nearly $10 million cash on hand to spend on trying to dupe Wisconsin voters. Last week, Ryan had the audacity to send out mailers trying to pretend that he actually cares about securing our border.

Make no mistake about it, these ads are funded by Paul Ryans open borders blood money. This is the money his donors pour into his campaign as an expression of gratitude for the decades hes spent trying to dissolve our borders at their requests.

Paul Ryans open borders blood money is now funding his hawkish border security ads.

I am here today to call on Paul Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately. I am here to tell Paul Ryan to stop the lies, Nehlen added. The only thing more disturbing than Paul Ryans refusal to secure the border is the extent to which hes comfortable lying about it to his constituents.

If the issue of this election is about refugees, there is no doubt who you should vote for in this election, Nehlen said.

Nehlen explained:

Imediately following last years terror attacks Ryan sent President Obama a blank check to bring in Islamic refugees. Ryan pushed a proposal, which Sen. Jeff Sessions has said would allow the President to continue to bring in as many refugees as he wants from anywhere in the world. [] The world is on fire with terrorism, yet Paul Ryans budget approved 300,000 visas for migrants from the Muslim world in a single year.

And now Ryan has the audacity to come into Wisconsin homes through our televisions and lie to us, and tell us hes keeping Islamic terrorists out? Nehlen added. When Wisconsin voters said we wanted to curb Islamic migration, Paul Ryan smirked, looked down at us, and lectured us about how thats not who we are. Maybe what Ryan meant to say is, thats not who his donors are.

Its easy for Paul Ryan to put your family at risk when he has an armed guard 24 hours a day, Nehlen said. But the average American doesnt have 24/7 armed security, the average American doesnt live behind walls, we dont send our children to exclusive schools. But that doesnt mean we arent entitled to live in safe communities, have a secure job, and raise our children in peace.

Nehlen concluded by noting that on August 9th, Wisconsin has a historic opportunity to tell Paul Ryans donors something they have never heard from Paul Ryan. We can tell them No. We can tell them: No, our district and our representation is not for sale. No, we wont hand over our country and our sovereignty to the highest bidder. No, we will not tolerate one more death of an innocent American as a result of Paul Ryans relentless push for open borders.On August 9th, remind Paul Ryan that your one vote counts just as much as the vote of Ryans wealthiest globalist donor.

The campaign provided reporters with a transcript of Nehlens prepared remarks, which can be read in fullbelow:

Im Paul Nehlen and Im running for Congress in the first Congressional District of Wisconsin to take back our district from the global special interests who control Paul Ryan, and to stop Ryans betrayal of Wisconsin voters.

Paul Ryan is the most open borders, pro-Wall Street, anti-worker member of Congress in either party. Paul Ryan has never worked as hard for his constituents as hes worked for corporate America.

Im here today to discuss Paul Ryans latest lie to the people of Wisconsin on behalf of furthering the interests of his donors.

Yesterday, Paul Ryan launched his first television ad for his reelection campaign. In the ad, open borders Ryan says that he is working to keep Islamic terrorists from entering the country.

The ad is a dishonest disgrace. It flies in the face of everything Ryan has done throughout his lifelong career in Washington. I am here today to call on Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately.

If the issue of this election is about refugees, there is no doubt who you should vote for in this election.

Immediately following last years terror attacks, what did Speaker Ryan do?

Ryan sent President Obama a blank check to bring in Islamic refugees.

Ryan pushed a proposal, which Sen. Jeff Sessions has said, would allow the President to continue to bring in as many refugees as he wants from anywhere in the world.

• Reports show that Ryans decision to expand the refugee resettlement program could potentially cost US taxpayers as much as $6.4 billion.
• Ryans leadership team blocked the Babin amendment which would have temporarily halted ALL refugee resettlement in order to protect Americans from terrorist refugees
• Ryans omnibus failed to fund the 700 mile double-layer border fence Congress promised the American people back in 2006 that would have closed our borders to the multitudes of terror connected individuals Border Patrol & Customs report could be walking across our southern border.
• As recently as December, Ryan held a press conference to condemn a temporary pause on Muslim immigration
• Ryans 2016 House Bill to pause the Syrian refugee program did no such thing. It actually weakened existing FBI, DHS & Department of Defense standards, thereby opening the door to an UNLIMITED number of refugees from an unlimited number of countries.
• Ryan touts his so called SAFE Act, but that act only would have applied to just two of ISIS 27 countries to enter the US; keeping the United States doors wide open to immigrants from ISIS 25 other countries.
• When Sean Hannity asked Paul Ryan about whether or not he would support curbs to Muslim immigration, Paul Ryan declared Thats not who we are.
• In 2013, Ryan declared that the U.S. ought to have an open door system where foreign nationals can come and go as they please.
• Ryan has a well documented 20-year career, both as a Congressional aid as well as a Congressman of supporting open borders and mass immigration. He has had every opportunity to secure our borders and block the flood of dangerous terror connected individuals from entering our country. Yet at every turn, Paul Ryan has chosen NOT to stop potential terrorists from entering America.
• Numbers USA President Roy Beck says there are an additional 10 million immigrants in the country as a direct result of Paul Ryans work in the mid-90s.

And now Ryan has the audacity to come into Wisconsin homes through our televisions and lie to us, and tell us hes keeping Islamic terrorists out?

When Wisconsin voters said we wanted to curb Islamic migration, Paul Ryan smirked, looked down at us, and lectured us about how thats not who we are. Maybe what Ryan meant to say is, thats not who his donors are.

The world is on fire with terrorism, yet Paul Ryans budget approved 300,000 visas for migrants from Muslim world in a single year.

Its easy for Paul Ryan to put your family at risk when he has an armed guard 24 hours a day.

But the average American doesnt have 24/7 armed security, the average American doesnt live behind walls, we dont send our children to exclusive schools. But that doesnt mean we arent entitled to live in safe communities, have a secure job, and raise our children in peace.

Reports show that Paul Ryan has nearly $10 million cash on hand to spend on trying to dupe Wisconsin voters. Last week, Ryan had the audacity to send out mailers trying to pretend that he actually cares about securing our border.

Make no mistake about it, these ads are funded by Paul Ryans open borders blood money. This is the money his donors pour into his campaign as an expression of gratitude for the decades hes spent trying to dissolve our borders at their requests.

Paul Ryans open borders blood money is now funding his hawkish border security ads.

I am here today to call on Paul Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately. I am here to tell Paul Ryan to stop the lies.

The only thing more disturbing than Paul Ryans refusal to secure the border is the extent to which hes comfortable lying about it to his constituents.

This 30-second TV ad embodies exactly what Paul Ryan thinks of his Wisconsin constituents. He thinks youre stupid.

He thinks he can betray us time and time again, and we will never catch on.

He and his donors share a chuckle at our expense as they spend millions crafting ads to dupe us into re-installing a Congressman, who will go right back to Washington and sell out our country and sell out our childrens futures.

On August 9th, Wisconsin has a historic opportunity to tell Paul Ryans donors something they have never heard from Paul Ryan. We can tell them No.

We can tell them: No, our district and our representation is not for sale.

No, we wont hand over our country and our sovereignty to the highest bidder.

No, we will not tolerate one more death of an innocent American as a result of Paul Ryans relentless push for open borders.

On August 9th, remind Paul Ryan that your one vote counts just as much as the vote of Ryans wealthiest globalist donor.

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/20/paul-nehlen-calls-for-removal-of-paul-ryans-dishonest-tv-ads-funded-by-open-borders-blood-money/

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Paul Ryan Makes the Most Horrible Hillary Clinton Comparison Ever

Paul Ryan announces final vote tally at 2016 Republican National Convention

Maybe I picked the wrong week to quit smoking, because the Republican National Convention is all over my TV like Roger Ailes at a Swedish job fair. Even Netflix has a double-box of Trumps empty podium. On Tuesday night, though, MSNBCs mercifully amateurish convention coverage spared me the indignity of having to watch sitting Speaker of the HousePaul Ryanaddress the pasty throng, opting to relegate him to background noise for panel chat. This was a good decision for my soul, but a curious one for a news network to make, so curiosity got the better of me, and I checked out the speech online.

The speech was a snorefest, as expected, and the only newsworthy bit was that Ryan only mentionedthe textbook racist hes supporting for president once, when he promised to show up at the next SOTU and sit, on the rostrum with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.

That doesnt mean there werent highlights of a sort, though, and I think they perfectly illustrate why Ryan and the rest of his party are getting trampled by Donald Trump and the Trumpists. The first of these is Ryans remarkably awful Hillary Clinton analogy. In an era in which invoking Hitler barely gets you a Mediaite write-up anymore, heres what Ryan went with:

Its like weve been on hold forever, waiting and waiting to finally talk to a real person and somehow weve been sent back to the main menu.

There must be a subsection of Godwins law that says when you get to the main menu, Hitler gets to win. Seriously, Mr. Speaker? Your candidate directly accuses her of actual murder, and youre going with Comcast customer service? Actually, put it that way and it doesnt sound so bad.

This is just a further illustration of the fact that Trump isnt a departure from Republican politics, hesthe concentrated Balsamic reduction of it. Whereas Trump comes right out and says Mexicans are rapists and blacks are murderers and we need to ban Muslims, Ryan is still blowing weak-a*s dog whistles like these:

Watch the Democratic Party convention next week, that four day infomercial of politically correct moralizing, and let it be a reminder of all that is at stake in this election

Let the other party go on and on with its constant dividing up of people. Always playing one group against the other as if group identity were everything. In America, arent we all supposed to be and see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity or all these other lines drawn that set us apart and lock us into groups?

See, to the perceptive racists, those two talking points mean that they should be proud to say racist and offensive things, and that if anyone calls them on it, they should just claim that those people are the real racists. But that weak tea dont play in Trumps America, where you just come right out and says Mexicans are rapists and blacks are murderers and we need to ban Muslims.

Truth be told, I much prefer the b***s-out racism of the Trump Era to the shrinkingcold-watervariety thatsbeen handed down to Paul Ryan bythe likes of Ronald Reagan. Its nice to know who everyone really is.

Thats why I love this next bit so much, because it perfectly illustrates exactly what kind of weak messenger Paul Ryan is for a fiction that was always paper thin. Heres Ryan going into his big money-shot closing when he realizes just what it is hes loaded into his Teleprompter, and bobbles it:

If we dont hold anything back, if we never lose sight of the spakes, if we never lose sight of whats on table

Thats Paul Ryan realizing hes about to use steaks and on the table in the same sentence, an image that pretty much says it allabout the choice available to voters this November.

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Day after endorsement, Paul Ryan slams Donald Trump

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(CNN) Just a day after House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump, he turned around and blasted the presumptive Republican nominee for attacking the judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit.

While explaining his endorsement Friday on a Wisconsin radio station, Ryan unprompted ripped Trumps attacks on the Mexican heritage of U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel.

Look, the comment about the judge, just was out of left field for my mind, Ryan said on WISN in Milwaukee. Its reasoning I dont relate to, I completely disagree with the thinking behind that.

And then Ryan issued a warning to Trump, that he will speak out when he feels he needs to.

So he clearly says and does things I dont agree with and Ive had to speak up on time to time when that has occurred and Ill continue to do that if thats necessary I hope its not, Ryan said.

Ryans comments came shortly after Hillary Clintons campaign slammed Trump in a statement for targeting the U.S.-born judges Hispanic descent.

The fact that Donald Trump doesnt see Judge Curiel and his family as Americans makes him unfit to be president of this great nation, a nation of immigrants, Lorella Praeli, director of Latino outreach for the Clinton campaign, said in a statement.

Trump has controversially gone after Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action lawsuit against Trumps now-defunct training program in California, and suggested his Mexican heritage could prevent him from judging Trump fairly as a result of Trumps strident anti-immigration rhetoric.

He told The Wall Street Journal that its an inherent conflict of interest for Curiel to sit on the case because Trump has proposed building a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

In the statement from the Clinton campaign, Praeli praised Curiels experience and qualifications, saying, Judge Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream. His parents worked hard to give their U.S.-born children a better life. He and his brother became successful lawyers. His other brother served in Vietnam.

In Trumps version of America, this Latino family isnt really America. But they are America. And Hillary Clinton will fight for ALL Americans, Praeli wrote.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Curiel, who was born in Indiana, is at the center of the controversy surrounding the Trump University lawsuit. He allowed for the playbooks about Trumps embattled namesake school to be opened to the public, saying there is now public interest in them since Trump became the front-runner in the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race, and has placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue.

Trump and campaign aides have repeatedly brought up Curiels heritage while questioning his ability to judge the case, and has also criticized Curiel for his membership in the former La Raza Lawyers Association, which is a leading Latino lawyers group in California.

Im building a wall. Its an inherent conflict of interest, Trump recently told the Wall Street Journal.

Source: http://q13fox.com/2016/06/03/day-after-endorsement-paul-ryan-slams-donald-trump/

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