Trump victory met with silence from GOP leaders

Published May 4, 2016 10:04pm ET



Key Republican leaders met Donald Trump’s new status as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee with silence on Wednesday, and refrained from congratulatory statements or tweets about Trump’s longshot victory.

“Not today, thanks,” Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, said when asked for a comment about Trump.

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