Not really.
1) Trump endorses Nehlen, Nehlen wins. Hooray!
2) Trump endorses Nehlen, Nehlen loses. Speaker of the House is now a very public political enemy who has a lot of control over President Trump's legislative agenda.
3) Trump endorses Ryan, Ryan wins. Trump has some clout with Ryan and who now owes Trump a favor or two.
4) Trump endorses Ryan, Ryan loses. Trump doesn't have to deal with the weasel and has drawn the ire (such as it may be) of a freshman congressman from Wisconsin.
Endorsing Nehlen is the riskiest of all four possibilities.
5) Trump endorses Ryan, both win their elections. Trump tells Nehlen “Now that I’m President, I’m free to endorse you in 2018. Stay ready”.
5th. Trump waited until the primary vote and pumped hard for the primary winner to help them win in November and he has a supporter in the house.
Include McCain on that one.
Manafort too old school.
Not to worry. To deem from Nehlen's press releases he seems to be an excellent person. On the endorsement this is what he had to say:
"Bottom Line: In endorsing Mr. Ryan on Friday night during his speech in Green Bay, Mr. Trump proved he’s the leader we need to unite the Republican Party and win in November."
"He [Trump] needs to squash Hillary. And I need to beat Ryan. Because if Clinton and Ryan are elected in November, Ryan will rubber stamp Hillary’s agenda in January. That said…"
"Media reports claiming Donald Trump “flip-flopped” by endorsing Ryan are simply not true and a perfect example of the dishonesty Mr. Trump has talked about among all too many reporters and news outlets."
"For the record, all Mr. Trump did earlier this week was thank me for a letter I wrote defending him against attacks by Kzihr Khan and complimenting the campaign we’re running. He never said he endorsed me, nor did I expect that he would."
Some interesting comments on the latest Wisconsin poll, contribution numbers etc. Read it all:
https://www.paulnehlen.com/about-that-trump-endorsement-bogus-poll-and-muslim-deportation/
I agree with that analysis.
I think you may have missed the point here. Zero has set the precedent. Trump does not need Congress. They have made themselves irrelevant.
Excellent point! I get the feeling that Trump already has surrogates pushing for Nehlen. If Nehlen wins (I pray to God he does!), I think his ire for Trump will be minimal.
Ryan is going to win and win big. He will give Trump no credit for it and will instead be a thorn in the side of a President Trump. We all know that will be what happens.
And the Uniparty wins again - One RINO supporting another RINO
Timidity is not going to get us any with the globalist thugs that run DC.
4) Trump congratulated Nehlen, and Nehlen was appreciative, and never expected Trump’s endorsement. If Nehlen wins, he will be a staunch Trump proponent.