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Jun 04
2016 |
ANALYSIS: Paul Ryan Gambles Policy Vision in Embracing Trump |
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House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday launched a new initiative with touches that have become his trademark.
“A Better Way” is a policy-heavy, optimistic vision for governing that will be driven, in Ryan’s telling, by the House of Representatives that he leads.
“We can get angry, and we can stay angry,” Ryan said in rolling the project out, “or we can channel that anger into action.”
It’s a powerful sentiment in a year where conservatives fear their core principles will suffer because of a presidential candidate for whom “angry” might be a compliment. But Ryan, of course, is now on record supporting that same candidate.
Ryan’s decision to endorse Donald Trump, coming less than 24 hours earlier before announcing his own new project, is a gamble as big as any he has made during a generally successful, if still young, speakership.
He is still hoping that he can put policy ahead of personality, in a year where the latter has utterly dominated the discussion. And Ryan is trusting... |
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| Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-paul-ryan-gambles-policy-vision-embracing-donald/story?id=39596536 |
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