{"id":25143,"date":"2016-05-06T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/republican-leaders-divided-on-supporting-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T03:20:19","slug":"republican-leaders-divided-on-supporting-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/republican-leaders-divided-on-supporting-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican leaders divided on supporting Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

{House Speaker Paul Ryan refuses to endorse Trump, saying presumptive presidential nominee must do more to unite party.}<\/p>\n

The Republican party is facing a divide, with party leader Paul Ryan refusing to support Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee, insisting that the businessman must do more to unite the party.<\/p>\n

Appearing on CNN’s show The Lead, Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Thursday that many Republicans wanted to see “a standard-bearer who bears our standards” and “unifies all the wings of the Republican Party”.<\/p>\n

“I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now,” the Wisconsin Republican said.<\/p>\n

It comes two days after Trump essentially clinched the nomination with a commanding win in Indiana that forced his last two opponents – Ted Cruz and John Kasich – from the race.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has become party’s presumptive presidential nominee, responded by saying he is not ready to support Ryan’s agenda either.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps in the future we can work together,” the billionaire businessman added.<\/p>\n

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Ryan is not the only one to have aired opposition to Trump. Former Presidents George H W Bush and George W Bush and several other senior Republicans have refused to back the real estate mogul.<\/p>\n

But Indiana Governor Mike Pence and former Texas Governor Rick Perry threw their weight behind the presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, however, said that Ryan and Trump will work out their differences after he spoke to both of them.<\/p>\n

The highly unusual salvos between the likely White House nominee and the House speaker came at a moment when all involved would normally be turning from the primaries to unifying the party for November’s elections.<\/p>\n

Ryan, his party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, had been seen as a possible “white knight” candidate who could emerge as an alternative to Trump at a contested convention slated to be held in July. He called a press conference last month to rule himself out.<\/p>\n

Trump’s Indiana victory pushed him to 1,047 delegates. He needs 1,237 to clinch the nomination.<\/p>\n

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