Paul Ryan: Trump would lose if he is 2024 GOP nominee

Former US House Speaker Paul Ryan says former President Donald Trump would probably lose if he is the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

“I think we probably lose the White House with Trump,” Ryan, a Republican, told ABC News on Sunday.

“And if there’s someone not named Trump, my guess is we win the White House,” added Ryan, who was Senator Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) running mate in the 2012 presidential election.

Ryan, who had an uneasy relationship with Trump during his time in the House leadership, said that the former president is unelectable, citing the recent losses in the midterm elections by candidates endorsed by Trump.  

“I think he’s going to continue to lose altitude because we want to win. And we know with him we lose. We have a string of losses to prove that point,” Ryan added, referring to Trump. “And there are a lot of really good, capable conservatives who people I think like that are more than capable of not only being good conservatives in office but can win elections.”

Ryan also said the Republican Party would have had better results on November 8 if Trump wasn't involved in the election campaign.

"I'm proud of the accomplishments [during the Trump administration] -- of the tax reform, the deregulation and criminal justice reform -- I'm really excited about the judges we got on the bench, not just the Supreme Court, but throughout the judiciary," Ryan told the American broadcaster. "But I am a Never-Again-Trumper. Why? Because I want to win, and we lose with Trump."

“I think what we now know … with Trump, we lose. I don’t mean this personally — it’s just evidence. We lost the House in ’18. We lost the presidency in ’20. We lost the Senate in ’20,” Ryan added. “And now, in 2022, we should have and could have won the Senate. We didn’t. And we have a much lower majority in the House because of that Trump factor.”

While Republicans secured the House with a slim majority, they failed to win the Senate. 

Trump had called for a Republican "giant red wave" to defeat Democrats, and the GOP achieved a much smaller victory than had been predicted.

Ryan put the blame directly on the former president.

"I personally think the evidence is really clear," Ryan said. "The biggest factor was the Trump factor … I think we would have won places like Arizona, places like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire had we had a typical, traditional conservative Republican, not a Trump Republican."

Ryan’s remarks come after the Republican Party last week was projected to gain majority control of the lower chamber for the first time since 2018.

It appears the Democrats would control the Senate, and Republicans would win the House of Representatives.

Trump has received criticism from members of the Republican Party for the party’s performance in some of the most high-profile midterm races.

GOP Senator Bill Cassidy has put the blame of midterm election losses on Republican candidates aligned with Trump, saying those candidates “underperformed” on Election Day.

“He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!” Trump wrote.

65 percent of Americans say Trump should not run again: Poll

A majority of American voters in a new poll say former Republican President Donald Trump should definitely not run for the White House again.

This is while a majority of American voters in a new poll say Trump should definitely not run for the White House again, following an unsatisfactory performance of several candidates he supported in the recent midterm elections.

The Politico-Morning Consult poll, released on Tuesday, showed that 53 percent of registered voters believe Trump definitely should not run, while 12 percent said he probably shouldn’t, The Hill reported.

However, about 20 percent of respondents said the former president should definitely run, while only 12 percent said he probably should.

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