Speaker Ryan tries new Trump strategy: Ignore him

[DonViejo]

By Scott Wong and Cristina Marcos - 10/16/16 06:00 AM EDT

With Donald Trump waging an ugly, scorched-earth campaign, Paul Ryan is facing pressure to embrace a new strategy: ignore Trump.

Both Ryan allies and even some Trump surrogates are urging the Speaker to avoid the incendiary GOP nominee and steer clear of the kind of unhelpful, intraparty warfare Republicans saw break out between the two men last week.

Instead, they want Ryan to help prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton, and make the argument that putting another Democrat in the White House would swing the Supreme Court to the left and mean four more years of a “feckless” Obama foreign and economic policies.

“I’ve certainly made it known to all Republican leadership that we need to distinguish carefully between the ugly words of Donald Trump and the ugly policies of Hillary Clinton,” Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a Trump supporter, told The Hill in a phone interview.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/301089-speaker-ryan-tries-new-trump-strategy-ignore-him

[lapfog_1]

1. No matter what happens

Ryan is finished as House Speaker.

[LisaL]

2. Nobody puts Trump in the corner!

[BSdetect]

3. As usual they are missing the key point

HRC is so much more prepared to be President and drumph is a menace to the entire planet. She deserves their support.

Such gutless wonders.