Paul Ryan Tells GOP to Move Past Trump, ‘Outrage Peddlers’
- Former House speaker addresses event at Reagan Library
- Polls show Republicans want candidates who agree with Trump
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Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is calling on the Republican Party to avoid getting caught up in culture wars and to move beyond Donald Trump, saying the conservative movement won’t advance if it remains dominated by him and his acolytes.
Ryan spoke Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California as part of a speaker series on the future of the GOP and the conservative movement. While Ryan credits Trump for bringing new voters into the party and strengthening the pre-pandemic economy, he argued without criticizing the former president by name that Trumpism is the wrong approach.