House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) pushed back against Republicans who want the party to mount an effort to block presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE at the national convention in July.

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"The way I see it is he won the thing fair and square," Ryan said in a clip of an interview with ABC’s “This Week” that will air on Sunday. "Seventeen people competed, one person won, and he got the delegates. The delegates ultimately decide these things, but he won fair and square."

Ryan criticized Trump this week, saying that his comments about a Hispanic federal judge being biased because of his ethnicity were a “textbook definition of a racist comment.” The Speaker, however, stood by his support for the presumptive nominee.