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Republican Paul Ryan to rule out 2016 presidential candidacy
House of Representatives Apostle Paul Ryan planned a accent on Tuesday to try to put to blow any Republican hopes that he could be drafted as a presidential applicant and save the affair from an accepted adversity if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz is the nominee.Ryan, the top adopted Republican in Washington and the 2012 carnality presidential candidate, has been the accountable of assiduous belief that he could appear as the appointee if an impasse over the party's aces develops at the July 18-21 Republican National Assemblage in Cleveland.
The Wisconsin agent appointed a accent at 3:15 p.m. EDT (1915 GMT) at the Republican National Committee address in Washington.
In an account with Milwaukee's WISN radio beforehand on Tuesday, Ryan said: "I am traveling to try afresh today to put this bed. The acknowledgment is 'No' and my able assessment is, if it goes to an accessible assemblage ... my acknowledgment is the assembly should aces a part of the humans who in fact ran for admiral this year ...
"I fabricated a absolutely bright best not to run for president. Therefore, I will not be nominated. I will not acquiesce my name to be placed in choice and it will not be me. ...I just wish to be absolutely bright clear," he said.
Ryan has afresh said he is not absorbed in entering the presidential race, but advocates for such a book accept acicular out that he was air-conditioned to acceptable House apostle until he was assuredly abiding to yield over from John Boehner endure year.
Republicans who see a adversity looming in the Nov. 8 presidential acclamation if Trump or U.S. Senator Cruz of Texas is the appointee accept harbored hopes of drafting a accepted affair amount like Ryan or 2012 applicant Mitt Romney.
For that to happen, no applicant would accept garnered the 1,237 assembly appropriate to win the choice on the aboriginal acclamation at the convention, and assembly there would accept to accept a accord another on a additional or consecutive ballot.
Ryan's advertisement came on a day if long-shot Republican presidential applicant John Kasich portrayed himself as an antitoxin to what he alleged the alienated backroom of Trump and Cruz and criticized them as absent to yield the Affiliated States down a "path of darkness."
Kasich's "two paths" accent in New York City was an accomplishment to analyze himself from his rivals and carve out a amplitude for himself as a positive, reasonable bourgeois a anniversary afore New York state's Republican and Democratic primaries on April 19.
Kasich - active a abroad third abaft Trump and Cruz and with no adventitious of capturing the Republican choice unless he can appear from a contested assemblage - did not acknowledgment Trump and Cruz by name but larboard no agnosticism as to who he was talking about.
He lashed out at Trump proposals to deport 11 actor actionable immigrants and appoint protectionist barter policies. He ridiculed Cruz's abstraction for a business collapsed tax, calling it a value-added tax. These are examples of a aisle of darkness, he said.
"Some who augment off of the fears and acrimony that is acquainted by some of us and accomplishment it augment their own clamorous admiration for acclaim or attention. That could drive America down into a ditch, not accomplish us abundant again," Kasich said, apropos to Trump's signature line.
As 14 added rivals accept alone out of the race, Kasich has adamantly backward in even admitting he has underperformed, acceptable alone his home accompaniment of Ohio. But his ambition is to appear from a contested assemblage as a accumulation appointee for the November accepted election, one who acclamation able-bodied adjoin Democratic beloved Hillary Clinton.
"A affiliated America is undefeatable," Kasich said. "We are an aberrant country."
Whether his accent will accept an appulse on the chase at this backward date is far from certain.
Trump is advantaged to win the April 19 primary in his home state. He holds a huge advance in assessment acclamation there, with Kasich active a abroad additional and Cruz in third place.
A achievement for Trump would advice charge down apropos a part of his supporters that he is al of a sudden accessible afterwards Cruz exhausted him in Wisconsin endure anniversary and won all Republican assembly in Colorado on Saturday.
In some acceptable account for Trump, he was formally declared the champ of Missouri's Republican primary, which was captivated on March 15.
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