Donald Trump on Tuesday morning continued to lash out at House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), setting himself up to blame a loss in November on a lack of support from Ryan and other members of the GOP establishment.
Following the release of a 2005 tape in which Trump can be heard making vulgar comments about women, Ryan said he would no longer campaign with Trump, but he stopped short of pulling his endorsement. And Trump has latched onto those comments, rallying his base to support him over Ryan.
In a Tuesday morning tweet, Trump warned that the speaker’s lack of support could hurt the GOP nominee’s chances in November.
Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
Trump followed up with a tweet noting reports that some Republicans were unhappy with Ryan’s attempt to distance himself slightly from Trump. The GOP nominee painted Ryan as a traitor.
Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
About an hour later, he then criticized Republicans for not being loyal to each other.
With the exception of cheating Bernie out of the nom the Dems have always proven to be far more loyal to each other than the Republicans!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
Disloyal R’s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win – I will teach them!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
Trump began criticizing Ryan on Monday following the speaker’s conference call with the GOP caucus. Trump published a tweet saying that Ryan “should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee.”
And during a Monday night rally, Trump lashed out at Republican leadership.
“You have people that can’t fix the budget and then they start talking about their nominee, but they can’t fix the budget,” Trump said at the rally. “Isn’t it really sad that we don’t have stronger leadership on both sides?”
Each of his children count as a separate poll.
This should get ugly, but just imagine how much uglier it would get if Ryan were a woman
Give him his due, he can get more bragging, lying, and whining into a few dopey-sounding words than any other loser alive or dead. Never been anyone quite like him for being pathetically insane on a grand scale.
At least no talk about “2. amendment solutions”
For the moment. He’ll get back to that when it finally sinks in that he’s down in the polls.