Paul Ryan to Endorse Trump, Campaign Sources Say

ByBRIAN MCBRIDE ABCNews logo
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan will be endorsing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, senior-level Trump campaign sources told ABC News today.

It's unclear when the endorsement will take place, but Ryan has a briefing on the House GOP agenda scheduled later today in Washington.

A Ryan spokesman, when asked today whether Speaker Ryan is preparing to endorse Trump, said, "There's no update and we've not told the Trump campaign to expect an endorsement."

"He's also not told anyone he regrets anything," the spokesman said of Ryan.

It has been widely reported that Trump and Ryan haven't seen eye to eye on several issues.

The Wisconsin Republican has frequently condemned Trump's campaign, including his proposed temporary ban of Muslim immigration, which Trump has since called a "suggestion," and Trump's initial resistance in denouncing the Ku Klux Klan after former grand wizard David Duke said he supported Trump.

In a May 5 interview with CNN, Ryan said he wasn't ready to endorse Trump, despite the billionaire mogul's decisive win in the Indiana primary that knocked out his final two contenders and catapulted him to the status of the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee heading into July's convention.

Trump shot back during an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that he didn't think the Republican Party needed to be unified behind his candidacy.

After much back and forth, Ryan and Trump finally decided to meet in Washington with Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus also in attendance.

The following week Trump arrived to Washington -- under the swarm of media -- to make a stop on Capitol Hill at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee.

After the meeting, Ryan and Trump issued a joint statement calling for Republicans to "unite around our shared principles, advance a conservative agenda and do all we can to win this fall."

But Ryan still wasn't ready to get behind Trump.

ABC News' John Santucci contributed to this report.

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