<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654108407084,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000172-ebac-d265-adff-fffc847c0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654108407084,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000172-ebac-d265-adff-fffc847c0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_54108404", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1023849"} }); ","_id":"00000181-208b-daca-a3b7-72ab0a850000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedFLORENCE, South Carolina — Former House Speaker Paul Ryan ripped brand-focused “entertainers” posing as lawmakers who are preoccupied with their careers rather than their constituents during a campaign stop for embattled Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC), whom he called a “workhorse.”
“Tom Rice is a loyal man. He is loyal to his constituents. He is loyal to his conscience. He is loyal to our founding principles. He’s loyal to the Constitution,” Ryan told a business-suited crowd seated at a Florence, South Carolina, hotel restaurant on Wednesday. “That’s why I’m here. Because Tom Rice is a man worth fighting for.”
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Ryan is in South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District, which stretches from the Grand Strand strip of beach to the state’s Pee Dee region, to support Rice at the luncheon and a business roundtable.
Ryan quipped that he was known as P.D. as a child to distinguish him from his father. Rice, a five-term incumbent, faces a crowded competitive primary election on June 14. The contest has been defined by Rice’s backing for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. One of his opponents, state Rep. Russell Fry, has Trump’s endorsement.
Prior to the trip, Ryan, who also contended with intraparty conflict as speaker, described Rice as “a man of principle, a man of conviction, and a leader who always puts South Carolina’s interests first.”
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“There were a lot of people who wanted to vote like Tom but who just didn’t have the guts to do it,” Ryan added. Rice, who touted his economic record and tax policies, replaced Ryan on the House Ways and Means Committee when the latter was elevated to speaker.
“Unfortunately, we have too many people in Congress who are more concerned about politics than about solving problems,” Rice said.
