Also Thursday, Trump plans to huddle with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his Republican leadership team across Capitol Hill at the headquarters of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, according to two senior GOP aides. McConnell and most of his leadership team have declared they will support the Republican nominee, albeit in a tepid manner asking for Trump to forge more unity in the party.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the Nos. 2 and 3 members of leadership, have both fallen in line supporting Trump as the party’s standard bearer this fall, even as their level of enthusiasm for the controversial figure should not be considered high.

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“Look, I’ve always said that I will support whoever becomes the Republican nominee, and that’s what I will,” McCarthy told a local TV station in his hometown Bakersfield Friday, a day after Ryan questioned Trump’s conservative credentials and said he was withholding his support.

“I spent eight years fighting the Obama philosophy of bigger government. I do not want another four years added to that with Hillary Clinton,” McCarthy added, focusing his remarks less on Trump’s positions and more on defeating the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

Scalise has long maintained he plans to support whoever emerges as the nominee from a tough, divisive presidential primary, and a senior aide confirmed Monday that he stood ready to back Trump.

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“He believes it’s critical for Republicans to unite so we can focus on defeating Hillary Clinton in November,” Chris Bond, Scalise’s spokesman, said.

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the No. 4 leader as chairman of the House Republican Conference, is siding with Ryan, saying that she is not ready to support Trump due to some of the more controversial statements he has made with regard to religious liberty and minorities.

“Before I endorse him, I would like to have a conversation with him,” she said Thursday in an interview with The Spokesman-Review. “I would like to ask him questions about some of the statements he’s made.”

That rare split of the top four House leaders is echoed throughout the Republican congressional ranks, with members expressing views all across the spectrum. Some Republican strategists have suggested that Ryan’s move gave political cover to House Republicans in endangered swing districts who have taken a neutral position on Trump’s nomination. At the same time, however, members in competitive seats are taking different positions.

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In suburban Virginia, Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) has suggested Trump still has to “earn” her vote. But in upstate New York, Rep. Elise Stefanik — so close to Ryan that the speaker asked her to introduce him in March at a high-profile speech about the party’s future — decided that the smart political move was to support Trump, who won the New York primary with more than 60 percent of the vote.

“Like my Democratic opponent, I will support my party’s nominee in the fall,” Stefanik, a freshman who Democrats are targeting this fall, said in a statement provided to the Albany Times-Union.