Paul Ryan: ‘It’s Not My Job To Tell Delegates What To Do’

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With a group of Republican delegates working to stop Donald Trump at next month’s convention, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, has given no indication that he plans to interfere.

“It’s not my job to tell delegates what to do,” Ryan told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press.” “. . . They write the rules. They make their decisions.”

Ryan was commenting on what The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe reports is the most organized effort yet to stop Trump from becoming the Republican presidential nominee.

Dozens of Republican delegates who will be voting for the nominee at their July convention want to change convention rules to allow delegates to vote for whomever they want – instead of the candidate who won their state’s nominating contest.

Ryan is the chair of that convention, which means he will essentially referee it. According to his interview with Todd, that means he will “just play it by the rules,” apparently whatever those rules may say. Ryan has endorsed Trump and told reporters last week that he has no plans to rescind his support.

Trump himself tried to throw cold water on that plan. In an interview with NBC’s Hallie Jackson that also aired Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Trump said he doesn’t think delegates are planning to outmaneuver him for the nomination and questioned whether it was legal.

“I competed with a lot of the establishment people. I beat all of them, and now a couple of them would like to come through the back door?” he said. “It’s awfully hard when I won . . . 38 . . . states, and somebody else won none, and they’re going to be the nominee? I don’t think so.”

Ryan also told Todd that House Republican lawmakers should follow their “conscience” when deciding whether to support Trump.

O’Keefe reports that by using the word “conscience,” Ryan could give leverage to delegates’ plans to block Trump, because that’s how they might be freed up to vote for anyone: by passing a “conscience clause.”

The anti-Trump push comes as the real estate mogul has careened from one controversy to the next since mathematically clinching the nomination in May. His poll numbers have taken a sharp turn downward against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and a Washington Post-ABC News poll last week found his unfavorability ratings at a campaign high.

(c) 2016, The Washington Post · Amber Phillips 

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1 COMMENT

  1. You’re right. It might not be your job, but who cares? THE CAVALIER’S ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!! Yes yes yes yes! We finally did it. Whoooooohoooooo! Cleveland rocks. Move over Jordan.

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