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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Race Puts Donald Trump and Paul Ryan on Collision Course
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/us/politics/republican-race-puts-paul-ryan-and-donald-trump-on-collision-course.html?_r=0WASHINGTON House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, chairman of the Republican National Convention, recent vice-presidential candidate and the highest elected Republican in the country, has one goal for this year: to form a conservative policy agenda for the Republican presidential nominee to embrace.
If that nominee is Donald J. Trump, that may be a waste of time.
Panicked Republicans question whether Mr. Trump will be able to unite the Republican-controlled Congress that would normally be expected to promote and promulgate his agenda, an internal crisis nearly unheard-of in a generation of American politics. On nearly every significant issue, Mr. Trump stands in opposition to Republican orthodoxy and his partys policy prescriptions the very ideas that Mr. Ryan has done more than anyone else to form, refine or promote over the last decade.
If the billionaire New York businessman captures his partys nomination which seemed increasingly possible after a decisive victory in Nevada Tuesday night he will become the titular head of the Republican Party, and lawmakers like Mr. Ryan would normally be expected to fall in line for the balance of the campaign. It is something that many in the party think may be impossible.
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Republican Race Puts Donald Trump and Paul Ryan on Collision Course (Original Post)
jpak
Feb 2016
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malaise
(269,054 posts)1. Get thee to the Greatest Page
CommonSenseDemocrat
(377 posts)2. He becomes the titular head after election, not nomination
AxionExcel
(755 posts)3. Hie Thee to Kolob
or whatever...