Paul Ryan - 2024

BREAKING: Paul Ryan calls on the GOP to not nominate Trump in 2024https://t.co/i0iWHE29F8

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 10, 2022

Did Paul Ryan campaign for Ron Johnson or Tim Michels or any other candidate in Wisconsin?

If he did, I missed it.

That would have been nice.

I guess he was too busy hosting fundraising events for Liz Cheney and campaigning against Trump.

From WISN:

"Republicans didn't see that red wave like they were predicting," said WISN 12 News reporter Caroline Reinwald. "Why do you think that is and what kind of lessons do you think Republican leadership should be taking away from that?"

"I think we're going to have to do a lot of soul searching and head scratching, looking through and parsing the numbers as to why we didn't perform as well as we would have liked to," Ryan said. "Ron got re-elected, I'm very happy to see that. It was a mixed blessing night, but we should have done better than we did."

Ryan pointed to former president Donald Trump as one reason why Republicans may not have performed as well at the polls.

"I think Trump's kind of a drag on our ticket. I think Donald Trump gives us problems, politically. We lost the House, the Senate and the White House in two years when Trump was on the ballot, or in office," Ryan said. "I think we just have some Trump hangover. I think he's a drag on our office, on our races."

"What do you think's going to happen if Donald Trump announces he's going to run for president again?" Reinwald asked.

"I mean, I assume he's going to announce, but I honestly don't think he'll get the nomination at the end of the day," Ryan said. "We want to win. We want to win the White House and we know with Trump we're so much more likely to lose. Just look at the difference between votes, between Trump candidates and non-Trump aligned candidates."

"It's really clear to me and the evidence is pretty stark that if we have a nominee not named Trump, we're so much more likely to win the White House than if our candidate's named Trump," Ryan said.

"We have to offer the country a better way forward. I think we have to offer the country solutions," Ryan said. "We have to offer the country a really clear and compelling choice as to how our party is ripe and ready to solve big problems confronting the country and that we're putting leaders forward that people can vote for that they want to vote for."

This isn't the first time Ryan has whined about President Trump and his potential 2024 candidacy.

In terms of solutions, President Trump was getting the border under control. The economy was roaring. We weren't on the verge of World War III. China and Russia behaved. There was peace and prosperity.

The president "named Trump" accomplished great things for Americans, in spite of Ryan.

Even more could have been achieved during his time in office if Ryan hadn't squandered Republican control of the House. What did Speaker Ryan accomplish while Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House? There was the tax cut. What else?

The fact is Ryan and Republicans like him failed to solve big problems, even when given the power to do so. The evidence of that is "pretty stark" and "really clear."