Then-House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi locomotion successful the Capitol Rotunda connected Dec. 3, 2018, successful Washington, D.C. | Pool photograph by Jabin Botsford
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan praised outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi connected Sunday, adjacent arsenic helium acknowledged his argumentation differences with her.
“Obviously, she and I usually disagree connected things, but archetypal pistillate talker — a vocation to beryllium arrogant of,” Ryan said connected ABC’s “This Week.”
Pelosi served 2 stints of 4 years arsenic speaker, some earlier and instantly aft Ryan’s 2 presumption successful the role.
“It’s an awesome legacy,” Ryan told big Jonathan Karl.
The Republican besides said he’s been reasoning “about her husband, Paul, a batch these days.”
“I conscionable consciousness truthful atrocious astir what happened to them,” Ryan said. Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer past month, by idiosyncratic allegedly seeking to harm the talker and different Democrats.
Acknowledging his party’s unexpectedly underwhelming show successful this month’s midterm elections, Ryan blamed erstwhile President Donald Trump.
If Trump is the Republican nominee for president successful 2024, Republicans volition “likely suffer the White House,” Ryan said.
“I americium a never-again-Trumper,” Ryan said, invoking the “never-Trumper” subdivision of his enactment that rejected Trump arsenic its nominee successful 2016. “Why? Because I privation to win.”
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