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Thu Aug 4, 2016, 02:01 PM Aug 2016

Paul Ryan's genteel and wimpy response to Trump: "campaign is distressing" but [View all]

he stands by his endorsement.

Sharp critique?

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan repeated Thursday that his endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was “not a blank check” and delivered a sharp critique of Trump’s flailing campaign two days after Trump declined to endorse Ryan for reelection to his Wisconsin congressional seat.

“He’s had a pretty strange run since the convention,” Ryan said on WTAQ radio in Green Bay. “You would think that we want to be focusing on Hillary Clinton, on all of her deficiencies. She is such a weak candidate that one would think that we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing that that’s not what we’re talking about these days.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/08/04/paul-ryan-says-trumps-campaign-is-distressing-but-stands-by-endorsement/

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