US House Speaker Paul Ryan says GOP is not Donald Trump’s party although he was nominated during a “fair” process.
Ryan, whose ties with Trump have been in tatters since the primaries, said last week that he finally cast a ballot for the property tycoon.
The highest elected GOP official also wrote an op-ed for CNN, urging Americans to back the billionaire.
The move came despite his criticism of Trump’s statements and his hesitation to announce endorsement not until the Republican convention.
During an interview on WTMJ in Milwaukee on Monday, the speaker of the US House of Representatives said, “No one person controls this party. This is a bottom-up, organic grassroots party based on conservative principles.”
However, he admitted that Trump’s nomination has been fair by saying, “As a party leader, as the highest elected official in the party, I have always felt a duty to the process, to democracy, to the primary voter who must be…