Ryan’s Angst Over Backing Trump to Get Prime-Time Audience
- Speech looms as another test of speaker’s uneasy Trump embrace
- Ryan says he wants unity, but support for Trump is qualified
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan checks the sound and the view from the podium the day before the start of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on July 17, 2016.
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When House Speaker Paul Ryan addressed his home-state Wisconsin delegation Monday morning, there were two words that didn’t cross his lips: Donald Trump.
That will be harder to do Tuesday night, when he addresses his party’s presidential nominating convention in prime time -- the latest test of Ryan’s uneasy embrace of the polarizing New York billionaire.