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Boehner backs Paul Ryan for president

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Former Speaker John Boehner said Paul Ryan should be the Republican nominee for president if the party fails to choose a candidate on the first ballot.

"If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I'm for none of the above," Boehner said at the Futures Industry Association conference here. "They all had a chance to win. None of them won. So I'm for none of the above. I'm for Paul Ryan to be our nominee."

Wading into the GOP nominating battle for the first time since leaving office last fall, Boehner said that "anybody can be nominated" at the convention in Cleveland this summer.

Boehner, who now splits his time between Florida, Ohio and D.C., had long whispered to friends that he believes Ryan could be the party's political savior if it came to that.

But Boehner never said it publicly until now.

In the same question-and-answer session here, Boehner referred to Ted Cruz as "lucifer." He previously called the Texas senator, who led the failed Republican effort to shut down the government over Obamacare, a “jackass.”

Ryan and his staff have consistently brushed aside any speculation that he might accept his party's nomination for president, saying he’s happy in the House.

It’s possible, of course, that frontrunner Donald Trump will garner the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright.

Boehner, an Ohio Republican who resigned last fall after pressure from conservatives on Capitol Hill, said he voted for his governor, John Kasich, in the Buckeye State primary. Boehner and Kasich served together in the House for a decade.

Boehner is also friendly with Trump. The business mogul was in the Capitol when Boehner awarded Jack Nicklaus with the congressional gold medal. Both good golfers, Boehner and Trump have hit the links together on several occasions.
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Ryan won't rule out GOP nomination; Boehner endorses

House Speaker Paul Ryan decided not to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, but he declined to rule out accepting it if a deadlocked party convention turns to him this summer.

"You know, I haven't given any thought to this stuff," Ryan said Tuesday night in an exclusive interview at the Capitol. "People say, 'What about the contested convention?' I say, well, there are a lot of people running for president. We'll see. Who knows."

Ryan, who ran in 2012 as Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee, has taken no public actions to encourage the idea that he could become a candidate. To the contrary, a political committee set up to draft him into the 2016 race recently shut down at the urging of the speaker's aides.

"I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president," Ryan said in the interview. "I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to."

Yet Donald Trump, even as he has established himself as the clear front-runner in the Republican race, still faces a challenge in rounding up the 1,237 delegates he needs to be nominated on the first ballot at the Republican convention in Cleveland. Trump's challenge was steepened by Gov. John Kasich's victory in Tuesday's winner-take-all Ohio primary — which keeps Kasich in a three-way nomination fight with Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

Ryan will chair the Republican convention, and would become a leading prospect if delegates decided to turn to someone outside the current field.

"I don't see that happening," he said in the interview. "I'm not thinking about it. I'm happy where I am, so no."

But at a moment of increasing urgency for the efforts by Romney and other prominent Republicans to block Trump, Ryan declined to categorically rule it out.

Ryan's predecessor as House speaker, John Boehner, endorsed him on Wednesday for the GOP presidential nomination, Politico reported.

"If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I'm for none of the above," Boehner said at a Florida conference, according to Politico.
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Honestly I don't think they can do anything about Trump at this point. Trying to pull some "contested convention" fukkery would literally shatter the GOP base and alienate a lot of their voters. But I doubt Trump could win the general anyway. So it really comes down to either -

1. Try to have as many establishment people as possible in Trump's administration and hope for the best -

2. Not wholeheartedly support Trump, take the L this election and let Clinton have it, disavow Trump and his brand of politics after he loses, and try to make a comeback in four years
 
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acri1 said:
Honestly I don't think they can do anything about Trump at this point. Trying to pull some "contested convention" fukkery would literally shatter the GOP base and alienate a lot of their voters. But I doubt Trump could win the general anyway. So it really comes down to either -

1. Try to have as many establishment people as possible in Trump's administration and hope for the best -

2. Not wholeheartedly support Trump, take the L this election and let Clinton have it, disavow Trump and his brand of politics after he loses, and try to make a comeback in four years
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I'm starting to think Trump might actually put the beats on that trollup in the general, but everything else you said is on point.
 
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This is dumb. Paul Ryan is high on the list of unacceptable politicains to Trumpists.

If this is the route you're going I'd bet on a guy like Scott Walker, Sessions, or Rick Scott first.
 
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This is dumb. Paul Ryan is high on the list of unacceptable politicains to Trumpists.

If this is the route you're going I'd bet on a guy like Scott Walker, Sessions, or Rick Scott first.
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I think Trump is going to pull a rabbit out the hat with his VP selection. As crazy and tough as he talks he's got to get ready for the general and start moving closer to the center on some issues.

If he was smart he would call Ron Paul to settler their differences. Trump/Paul ticket would be a revoltionary tinfoil hats wet dream
 
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