Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Sunday opened the door to attempting to oust House Speaker Paul Ryan as as chairman of the Republican National Convention if Ryan does not back off his refusal to support Trump’s bid.
“I will give you a very solid answer, if that happens, about one minute after that happens, okay?” Trump said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “There’s no reason to give it right now, but I’ll be very quick with the answer.”
Trump suggested that he believes Ryan will eventually reverse himself and accept Trump as the nominee.
“I’d like to have his support,” Trump said. But if he doesn’t want to support me, that’s fine, and we have to go about it.”
The two men are set to meet in the Capitol next week.
In an interview that aired earlier Sunday on CNN, former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a Trump supporter, vowed to support a challenger for Ryan’s Wisconsin House seat.
“His political career is over but for a miracle,” Palin said of Ryan, who was the Republican presidential nominee four years after her.
