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Republican Speaker of the House from Wisconsin Paul Ryan speaks outside a DC-based charity where he unveiled a Republican initiative to combat poverty June 7, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA)
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday delivered a forceful rebuke of Donald Trump’s suggestions that a judge may be biased<span style="color: Red;">*</span>against him because of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>his Mexican Heritage.
“I disavow these comments,” Ryan said. “Claiming a person can’t do the job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It’s absolutely unacceptable.”
But the Wisconsin Republican, who endorsed Trump last week, said he still supports him.
“Do I believe that Hillary Clinton is the answer? No, I do not,” he said. “I believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day and we have more likelihood of getting our policies enacted with him than we do with her.”
The remarks reflect the difficult balancing act that lay ahead for Ryan and other Republicans in the coming months with the ever-unpredictable Trump at the top of the party’s presidential ticket.
Ryan offered a litany of criticisms of Trump’s comments, calling them<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“indefensible” and “wrong-headed” and urging Trump to back away from them because it would be the “mature and responsible thing.”
“And the thinking behind it is something I don’t even personally relate to,” Ryan said. “But at the end of the day, this is about ideas, this is about moving our agenda forward.”
He made the remarks at a press conference announcing House Republicans’ policy prescriptions for combating poverty, the first of several areas in a platform they hope will unite the party. Ryan said he has had "exhaustive" conversations with Trump about the policies and is confident Trump will likely embrace them.
“I see it as my job as Speaker of the House to help keep our party unified,” he said. “I think if we go into the fall as a divided party, we are doomed to lose.”
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