Ryan’s failed primary opponent now wants to challenge him for speaker

Published October 26, 2016 10:46pm ET



The man who lost his primary race this year against Rep. Paul Ryan by a nearly 85-point margin announced Wednesday that he will challenge the Wisconsin Republican for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Real America knows that D.C. lives in a bubble, and that the power players inside the Beltway are concerned with their own fortunes rather than with the plight of the American worker and middle class,” Paul Nehlen said in a statement made available to the Washington Examiner.

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