House Speaker Paul Ryan said Republicans need to continue their work to ensure the Badger State stays red, despite capturing Wisconsin in the presidential election in addition to GOP Sen. Ron Johnson retaining his Senate seat.
The traditionally blue state flipped to Trump on Nov. 8 for the first time since 1988, a trend the GOP is hoping to continue.
“We have to constantly convince and persuade and we’re — our ideas are always challenged and questioned because this is not a doctrinaire state for the left or the right,” Ryan told Milwaukee radio host Charlie Sykes Monday.
Many speculate Republicans were successful in the state due to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s failure to campaign there.
“You can’t just rest on laurels and assume everyone listens to the same shows and thinks the same thing, because they don’t here in Wisconsin,” Ryan continued. “And you constantly have to be energetic and persuasive and really attune to your principles and your convictions and show how those applied to the problems, come up with better solutions. And so, we just have our work cut out for us, and we work hard at it, and I think that is why we have an energetic conservatism here in Wisconsin.”
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