The national spokeswoman for Republican Donald Trump’s campaign said Friday morning that if House Speaker Paul Ryan can’t get on the Trump train, he shouldn’t be speaker.
Asked on CNN if Ryan “is still fit to be Speaker” if he doesn’t come around on endorsing Trump, spokeswoman Katrina Pierson replied, “No, because this is about the party.”
“He’s speaker of what? Just speaker of the House of Representatives? We are a party!” Pierson continued.
“We were told to hold our noses and vote for the sake of the party,” she said, citing failed GOP nominees Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. “These same people are now telling us that because their guy didn’t win, they want to hurt the party.”
Pierson also said Trump’s rise is the result of party elites rejecting the will of their own voters for the last several election cycles.
When asked Thursday if he would endorse the presumptive GOP nominee, Ryan responded he’s “just not ready to do that at this point.”
Oh hell. Am I going to have to defend Paul Ryan against this odious woman?
It’s time to remove this moron from the national dialog.
Trump for Speaker! He’ll make all the deals! The House will never have had it so good!
I love this! If Ryan backs down he looks like the worst kind of wuss, and if Trump doesn’t back down he stains the “honor” of the media’s favorite Republican “moderate” whore.
My thought exactly.
I suppose it would be pissing in the wind to inform this odious woman that the House and its Speaker are established by the Constitution (Article I, section 2). Parties, on the other hand, not so much.