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Speaker of The House [crscore]Paul Ryan[/crscore] said Thursday he is “just not ready to” support Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Ryan if he would support Trump.
Ryan replied, “To be perfectly candid with you, Jake, I’m just not ready to do that at this point,” Ryan said. “I’m not there right now, and I hope to, though, and I want to. But I think what is required is that we unify this party. And I think the bulk of burden on unifying the party will have to come our presumptive nominee.”
“I do not want to under-play what he accomplished. He needs to be congratulated for an enormous accomplishment for winning now a plurality of delegates, and he’s on his way to winning a majority of delegates, but he also inherited something very special, that’s very special to a lot of us,” he said.
“This is the party of Lincoln, of Reagan, of Jack Kemp, and we don’t always nominate a Lincoln and a Reagan every four years, but we hope that our nominee aspires to be Lincoln and Reaganesque,” Ryan argued.
He said the Republican nominee needs to advance “the principles of our party and appeals to a wide, vast majority of Americans. And so I think what is necessary to make this work, for this to unify is to actually take our principles and advance them.”
“Saying we’re unified doesn’t in and of itself unify us, but actually taking the principles that we all believe in, showing that there’s the dedication of those and running a principled campaign that Republicans can be proud about, and that can actually appeal to the majority of Americans, that to me is what it takes to unify this party.”
“So you’re saying that you can’t support or endorse him right now?” Tapper asked.
“Yeah, I am basically saying that. Look, I thought about this two days ago. I thought actually this thing was going to go to June 7 at the very least, probably to a convention, and so this is all pretty new for us. But at this point, I think that he needs to do more to unify the party, to bring all wings of the Republican Party together and then to go forward and to appeal to all Americans in every walk of life, every background.”
“I think conservatives want to know does he share our values and our principles on limited government, the proper role of the executive, adheres to the Constitution.”
“There are a lot of questions that conservatives are going to want answers to, myself included,” Ryan said. “I want to be a part of this unifying process. I want to help to unify this party. But we have to unify it, I think, for us to be successful, for us to have a campaign that Republicans are proud of going forward that is unifiable and that actually can go and appeal to a vast majority of Americans.”