Wooing Chairman Ryan: Paul Ryan remains on sidelines as House GOP looks to regroup

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) left his colleagues and the rest of political Washington guessing Friday about whether he would run for speaker of the House. Ryan declined to speak at a closed-door session of the Republican caucus where lawmakers had hoped to he would offer them a leader to rally around and unite the warring factions with their ranks after weeks of turmoil.

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Lawmakers exiting the Capitol basement meeting room wore looks of stunned silence, having no clear idea what would come next. A day earlier, their leading candidate, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), suddenly and shockingly withdrew from the speaker’s race just minutes before Thursday’s nomination vote was set to take place.

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Ryan has long resisted stepping into a House leadership role, with his wife and three school-age children living in Janesville, about 75 miles southwest of Milwaukee. But calls from across the Republican Party intensified in the hours after McCarthy dropped his bid, including from Boehner, who, in two separate conversations, encouraged Ryan to take the job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/10/09/all-eyes-on-paul-ryan-as-house-gop-looks-to-regroup/


Using his family as an out makes no sense. Ryan does not want the speaker's job for another reason. Why the MSM gives Ryan this easy out is strange........