The Ryan/McConnell wing ‘For the party’

Ryan announced in a guest column for his hometown newspaper Thursday that he planned to support Trump in November. In the month since the other candidates dropped out of the race, Ryan had withheld his endorsement of the billionaire, whose policy solutions differ from his own on many fronts.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had told his colleagues that they would "drop [Trump] like a hot rock," should he get the nomination. But after it became clear that Trump would win, McConnell and several other leaders fell in line and expressed support, if less than enthusiastically, for him in the name of uniting the party to win down-ballot races. In a sign of support coalescing behind Trump, nine of 20 House committee chairmen endorsed Trump in a joint statement on May 13.