House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that the party didn’t always agree that Donald Trump should be the nominee , but it is time for party unity and a ‘clean break from a failed system.’
Democrats are just going through the motions, he said, by nominating Hillary Clinton.
‘The Obama years are almost over. The Clinton years are way over. Two-thousand sixteen is the year America moves on,’ he said,
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House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that the party didn’t always agree that Donald Trump should be the nominee but it is time for party unity and a ‘clean break from a failed system’
Ryan addressed delegates during primetime in a formal speech after overseeing the roll call vote earlier in the day that delivered the GOP nomination for president and vice president to Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
‘Next time there’s a State of the Union address, I don’t know where Joe Biden and Barack Obama will be,’ the GOP leader said tonight. ‘But you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.’
Ryan initially withheld his endorsement of Trump even as he became the presumptive GOP over their competing visions for the Republican Party.
He eventually gave Trump his support as the party’s rank and file signaled that they were coming around, as well.
Tonight he told delegates, ‘Democracy is a series of choices. We Republicans have made ours.
‘Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have – and you know what I call those? Signs of life. Signs of a party that’s not just going through the motions. Not just mouthing new words for the same old stuff.’
Americans have shown in 2016 that they ‘undeniably, want a big change in direction for America, a clean break from a failed system.’
‘And what does the Democratic Party establishment offer? What is their idea of a clean break? They are offering a third Obama term, brought to you by another Clinton, he told them to boos.
Ryan compared the country to an airplane that’s been clear for takeoff then is directed to back to the gate.
‘It’s like we’ve been on hold forever, waiting and waiting to finally talk to a real person, and somehow we’ve been sent back to the main menu,’ he said, switching metaphors.
Ryan initially withheld his endorsement of Trump even as he became the presumptive GOP over their competing visions for the Republican Party. He eventually gave Trump his support after RNC chair Reince Priebus, a fellow Wisconsite brokered peace talks
Democrats will meet next week in Philadelphia to confirm Clinton as their nominee.
‘You can get through four days of it, with a little help from the mute button,’ he said, mocking the other party’s convention. ‘But four more years of it? Not a chance.’
Progressives will try to ‘talk down to the rest of America,’ he predicted and ‘tell the voters that the Obama years have been good for you … that you should be grateful, and well, now it’s Hillary’s turn.’
‘We offer a better way for America, with ideas that actually work,’ he said in the speech, watched by an estimated 10 million Americans.
A conservative who cut his teeth in politics as a Capitol Hill staffer before returning home to Janesville, Wisconsin, to run for Congress the 46-year-old quickly rose through the ranks in the House, earning his stripes as a policy wonk along the way.
He took over the speakership late last year as party leader John Boehner made a dramatic exit from Congress amid discord in the party and has made a conservative agenda that focuses on a ‘better way.’
Ryan used his speech to carry the ball forward, mentioning Trump a mere two times – at the beginning of his speech, as he talked about the next State of the Union and toward the end when he said Clinton would never embrace his small government vision.
‘None of this will happen under Hillary Clinton. Only with Donald Trump and Mike Pence do we have a chance at a better way,’ he said after making the case for tax reform and other changes to the government traditionally supported by Republicans.
SPEAKER: Ryan addressed delegates during primetime in a formal speech after overseeing the roll call vote earlier in the day that delivered the GOP nomination for president and vice president to Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
Americans ‘are disappointed and restless,’ he said, because they feel ‘opportunity seems like it’s been slipping away.’
‘That’s because it has. And liberal progressive ideas have done exactly nothing to help,’ he declared.
Obama is the ‘most liberal president we have had so far,’ the conservative leaders said.
‘The result is a record of discarded promises … empty gestures … phony strawman arguments … reforms put off forever … shady power plays, like the one that gave us Obamacare … constitutional limits brushed off as nothing … and, all the while, dangers in the world downplayed, even as the threats grow bolder and come closer.’
Ryan told them, ‘It’s the latest chapter of an old story: progressives deliver everything except progress.’
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