Paul Ryan: I’m Definitely Not Running For GOP Nom If There’s Open Convention

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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) again insisted Sunday he would not seek his party’s nomination for President if the convention opens without a clear majority for frontrunner Donald Trump or another candidate.

Ryan told The Times Of Israel during his first trip abroad since he assumed the speakership he decided not to run for the nation’s highest office, which hasn’t changed.

“I think you should run if you’re going to be President. I think you should start in Iowa and run to the tape,” he told the paper, citing his “young family” and a “deep bench” of Republican candidates among his reasons for not running.

Asked whether he would step up for the Republican nomination in the event of a possible brokered summer convention, Ryan replied, “No, I’ve already said that that’s not me.”

“My goal is to be neutral and dispassionate,” Ryan, who will chair the convention, said. “Nothing’s changed other than the perception that this is more likely to become an open convention than we thought before.”

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  1. Sez the guy who definitely wasn’t running for Speaker.

  2. Do you really not believe him. You can like him or hate him, but he’s no dummy. There is no win for him for doing this. He knows the republican party has all but thrown this race. so why he would run and ruin his future doesn’t make sense

  3. Off Topic but the Suprem,e Court just unanimously decided the following case in our favor. Conservatives who brought the case lost. One person one vote.

    Evenwel v. Abbott
    Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
    14-940 W.D. Tex. Dec 8, 2015
    Tr.Aud. TBD TBD TBD OT 2015
    Issue: Whether the three-judge district court correctly held that the “one-person, one-vote” principle under the Equal Protection Clause allows States to use total population, and does not require States to use voter population, when apportioning state legislative districts.

  4. Definitely not = Likely Will in today’s RealGOTPSpeak.

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