Ryan sounds alarm on Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Speaker Paul Ryan told top donors on Wednesday evening that he’s growing concerned about whether House Republicans will be able to weather the political storm this November — and suggested the outcome for his party could be dire.

During a conference call, Ryan said he believed that House Republicans had taken a serious hit amid Donald Trump’s freefall following release of the now-infamous "Access Hollywood" video, according to a person who was on the call. Ryan noted that Republicans lost more than 20 seats in 2008, when John McCain lost to Barack Obama by seven percentage points. By comparison, Ryan pointed out grimly, Trump is trailing by around 10 percent nationally.

"Speaker Ryan holds routine calls with top supporters, top grassroots organizers, and many others. This is an opportunity to discuss our efforts to win in November," said Zack Roday, a Ryan spokesman.

Ryan's comments came as new stories were breaking in the New York Times, Palm Beach Post and Rolling Stone alleging that Trump improperly touched four women in separate incidents going back decades. The Trump campaign denied the allegations and has threatened to sue at least one of the publications, yet the controversy over Trump's sexual interactions with women — and his vulgar comments about them — has dominated the presidential race for the last five days, led to a collapse in his poll numbers, and threatens to sweep away the House and Senate GOP majorities.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/paul-ryan-donald-trump-house-republicans-229716

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My wife and I have decided to make another investment into House races; the prospects seem better...

[Crowman1979]

1. Talk about buyer's remorse!

Last time I checked, there is no refund for defective candidates.

[calimary]

5. Talk about poetic justice!

He's being done in by his own itty bitty horn-doggie dick. Man - talk about your own past coming back to haunt you. And it's not even Halloween yet!

[Divine Discontent]

2. well... they DESERVE to lose a record amount of seats for creating this monster they now wanna dump

[BlueStreak]

7. Question: Which are more vulnerable, the teabaggers or the mainstream GOP reps?

[Midnight Writer]

8. I think the teabaggers ARE the new mainstream Republicans. The takeover is complete.

The "mainstream" Republicans encouraged this anti-government, Democrats are demons, take our country back, fear, hatred, the end is near, Jesus loves the rich, you are all being screwed by evil minorities, talk radio mentality among their constituents, and now they are the victims of their own BS.

[DK504]

19. teabagger

I actually believe some of these morans will actually do some violence the night Hillary wins.

[YOHABLO]

21. Oh I'm sure we can count on that. These people are nut bags.

[Coyotl]

3. Make Congress Great Again

[hibbing]

4. Tread lightly, he perfectly represents your base n/t

[calimary]

6. As they themselves congratulated each other in their Campaign 2012 slogan:

"We Built It."

Yep. You sure did.

[SunSeeker]

9. LOL. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fuckwad.

And Paul, don't bother asking those donors for money, they're asking for refunds of what they already gave.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/major-gop-donors-are-asking-trump-their-money-back-n664661

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. If I was Ryan I would play both sides. Including Dems.

I would put it out there that I was more worried than I actually was in hopes of lulling the enemy/us into complacency.

[Tobin S.]

11. Why would you run for president with those kinds of skeletons in your closet?

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, and I'm just some trucker, but even I understand that if I run for public office people are going to have a keen interest in my past. You can't just go up there and say, "I'm awesome! Vote for me!" and then expect no one to check up on you. I think that's called hubris. We have seen the pride before the fall of this monumental ego played out on the national stage. Trump will be written about in college text books: political science as well as psychology.

[msanthrope]

12. Hubris. nt

[Happyhippychick]

13. Better start sending flowers to Hillary. Or as you will call her:

Madame President

[cstanleytech]

14. Well no shit Mr Speaker but you and your fellow Republicans have only

yourselves to blame because you decided on a strategy of courting an extremist voter base and now they have selected one of their own to run for office so congratulations to you and your fellow Republicans.

[randome]

15. "Why can't someone DO something?" says the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

This election perfectly illustrates how lazy and stupid the Conservative Party has become.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[excringency]

16. What Jumped Out at Me

In addition to the glee this sort of story brings to me, one salient point screamed out at me. "Ryan pointed out grimly, Trump is trailing by around 10 percent nationally." RealClearPolitics shows a current polling average of plus 4.6% for Secretary Clinton. Nate Silver's 538 show Secretary Clinton with a lead of 5.0% in his polls plus forecast. I know both parties spend fortunes on polling and have much more accurate polling data than this. I also assume even professional Republican polling to have the slightest house bias, but a 10% deficit? HA!

[geek tragedy]

17. "but I haven't withdrawn my endorsement"

No quarter should be shown to the party of Trump

[BadGimp]

18. Trump is now..

[Mc Mike]

20. That's loser talk, Paul.

[YOHABLO]

22. Perhaps we should thank our lucky stars that Trump has destroyed the party.

I'm crossing my fingers on this one, I'm still contemplating what this all means. I don't think I've ever (in my 40+) years of voting seen an election quite like this one.