The Challenger
Ryan Rival Seeking to Use Bad Blood With Trump Against Speaker
A top Trump aide said Paul Nehlen isn’t going to win, but the challenger is drawing increasing attention ahead of Tuesday’s primary, a contest that’s become a small-stage enactment of the battles within the party.
Paul Ryan’s Republican primary rival, Paul Nehlen, reads a statement to the media on Aug. 3, 2016, with the assistance of aide Noel Fritsch, outside a courthouse in Janesville, Wisconsin.
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The growing fissures in Donald Trump’s Republican Party are on full display among the small towns, manufacturing plants, and rolling farmland of southeast Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s home base.
Paul Nehlen, Ryan’s longshot rookie campaign challenger in Tuesday’s primary, is seeking to leverage the Republican presidential nominee’s troubled relationship with the speaker in a contest that’s become a small-stage enactment of the battles within the party.