{"id":40802235909,"date":"2016-05-19T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:58:10","slug":"republican-disenfranchisement-reaches-the-house-paul-ryan-fails-to-endorse-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/2016\/05\/19\/republican-disenfranchisement-reaches-the-house-paul-ryan-fails-to-endorse-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Disenfranchisement reaches the House: Paul Ryan Fails to Endorse Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Ashley Medina<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Monmouth University Polling Institute graduate assistant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the political divide within the Republican Party became even more evident when Speaker of the House Paul Ryan issued a statement expressing that he is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/06\/us\/politics\/paul-ryan-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not ready<\/a>\u201d to endorse Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. \u00a0However, the Speaker\u2019s unwillingness to endorse the billionaire may hurt his own political career as opposed to that of the presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and some of his supporters have voiced strong positions concerning the issue of Ryan\u2019s statement but what does the greater electorate think?\u00a0 Results from a recent (5\/6-9) <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2016\/05\/11\/most-republicans-think-ryan-should-endorse-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouGov\/Economist Poll<\/a> cite that two out of three voters who participated (or plan to participate) in the GOP primaries and caucuses believe that Ryan should endorse Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Personal differences aside, Ryan now has to measure how the general Republican base\u2019s attitudes and allegiances will affect his standing.\u00a0 Keeping in mind the tremendous popular support the billionaire has been able to cultivate, it may be in Ryan\u2019s best interest to officially support the candidate if he would like to maintain favor among the Republican electorate.<\/p>\n<p>As the political climate stands now, Republican voters are actually more likely to side with Trump who among all American voters, is viewed favorably by only 30% and unfavorably by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">64%<\/a>. By comparison, Ryan is viewed somewhat more positively, with 34% of US voters viewing him favorably and 38% unfavorably.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan may be better liked than Trump among all voters, but among Republicans only, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/news\/2016\/05\/11\/most-republicans-think-ryan-should-endorse-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of three<\/a> actually have positive views of Trump.\u00a0 Should Trump mobilize his supporters against the Speaker, Ryan is likely to face political ramifications for his recent statements.\u00a0 This, along with the fact <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/news\/2016\/05\/11\/most-republicans-think-ryan-should-endorse-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">49%<\/a> of GOP voters disapprove of what Ryan has done as Speaker of the House, may motivate him to \u201cget ready\u201d sooner rather than later to support the presumptive presidential nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Medina Monmouth University Polling Institute graduate assistant Recently, the political divide within the Republican Party became even more evident when Speaker of the House Paul Ryan issued a statement expressing that he is \u201cnot ready\u201d to endorse Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. \u00a0However, the Speaker\u2019s unwillingness to endorse the billionaire may hurt his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":939,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802235909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802235909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802235909"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802235909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802253580,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802235909\/revisions\/40802253580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802235909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802235909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802235909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}