House Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in elected office (at least until January), offers resounding praise for Donald Trump’s victory.
“This was the most incredible political feat…in my lifetime,” Ryan says in a Wisconsin press conference.
Citing the “unified Republican government,” Ryan notes Trump “heard a voice in this country no one else was hearing. Seven out of 10 Americans don’t like the direction this country is going.
“Donald Trump,” he adds, “provided a lot of coattails that got a lot of people over the finish line” in Congressional races.
And he sounds a conciliatory tone. “There’s no doubt our democracy can be very messy and we do remain a sharply divided country. But now, as we do every four years, we have to work to heal the divisions of a long campaign.”
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