Trump a ‘proven loser’, he is fading fast: Former US speaker Paul Ryan on White House bid
Former US President Donald Trump is a ‘proven loser’, former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Thursday.
Ryan’s statement was in reference to Trump’s losses in the Republican elections during the past years. “He is a proven loser. He cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us the Senate again and again,” Ryan told CNN in an interview on Thursday.
“Trump is fading fast,” Paul Ryan added.
Further, the former House Speaker said he does not believe Trump will get the party nomination as Republicans begin to focus more on issues like fiscal responsibility and less on personalities.
“I think we are moving past Trump,” he added.
“I really think that’s the case. I can’t imagine him getting the nomination, frankly.” In a similar comment, Ryan, in November 2022, said the ‘Trump factor’ was responsible for the GOP’s disappointing 2022 midterm results and predicted that Trump would not win in 2024.
“He can get his people through the primaries, but he can’t win general elections,” Paul Ryan had said. “We get past Trump… we start winning elections. We stick with Trump, we keep losing elections. That’s how I see it… It’s really clear, I think the Republican voter is going to move on.”
“I don’t talk to him, so I don’t know what’s going on in his mind,” Ryan added. A video of Paul Ryan’s remarks was shared on Twitter by a journalist. Trump is the only prominent Republican to officially launch a 2024 presidential campaign; however, a number of prominent GOP figures are considering White House runs.
WHO IS PAUL RYAN
An American former politician, Paul Davis Ryan, served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
A member of the Republican Party, he was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election, running alongside Mitt Romney, but lost to incumbent president Barack Obama and then-vice president Joe Biden.
In recent months, Ryan has been recognised as a vocal critic of Trump. Ryan is now vice chairman of Teneo, a public relations and CEO advisory firm after he decided not to run for reelection in 2018.