Former Speaker Paul Ryan says Republicans will lose if Donald Trump is nominee

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Former Speaker Paul Ryan says Republicans will lose if Donald Trump is nominee
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Republicans will lose the presidential election if Donald Trump is the nominee and that he expects hard-right followers of Trump to force a government shutdown within days.

Ryan, who left office in 2019 and had a sometimes contentious relationship with Trump, said he hoped that another Republican nominee would gain enough momentum early next year to overtake Trump after the first primaries. Ryan represented southeastern Wisconsin in Congress for 20 years, the last four as speaker.

“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

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How I miss the days when I disliked Republicans just for being slimey shitweasles and not literal fascists.

Slimey shitweasle is a precursor to literal fascist.

We finally found the slippery slope they're obsessed with!

And that slope is so slippery because it is covered in santorum.

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I mean, regardless of their plans, the Bush era wasted an absurd amount of money and goodwill to get a million Iraqis killed and destabilize the Middle East for generations.

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