Ryan will consider 2016 bid after
midterms
November 13, 2013, 08:07 am
By Mario Trujillo
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday he is going to take a hard look at
running for president after the 2014 elections.
Ryan — Mitt Romney’s vice
presidential running mate in 2012 — said he is not currently “worrying about my
own personal ambitions and career moves.”
“I’ve decided I will consider this
later,” Ryan told the Des Moines
Register. “Once I’m through with this term, then I’m going to give a hard
look at it.”
He is slated to headline Iowa Gov.
Terry Branstad’s (R) birthday party over the weekend. Another presidential
prospect, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), keynoted the event last year.
It will be Ryan’s first return to
the early presidential nominating state, a testing ground for potential 2016 candidates.
Ryan said he and Romney
unsuccessfully ran against the healthcare law in 2012, but the issue will have
a larger impact in 2014 now that the public has seen the implementation.
“Mitt and I tried to stop it. We
ran against it,” he said. “We didn’t win that election. I think a lot of people
are now realizing that they were sold a bill of goods.”
He said the broken commitment that
people who like their healthcare plans could keep them under ObamaCare would hurt Democrats at the
polls. He specifically referred to Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), who is running
for the state’s open Senate seat next year.
“It’s the Democrats who voted for
this law,” he said. “It’s the senators who voted for this law. It’s the Bruce
Braleys who voted for this law and made up all these statements and all these
claims.”
Ryan also said he would like to
see immigration reform addressed by the end of the year. But with GOP
leadership saying it is unlikely, the Wisconsin
congressman was hopeful the push would continue into 2014.
“When we get to it, it’s not
extremely clear,” he said. “But there are many of us who still would like to
see it happen in a step-by-step process before the end of the year. But if that
doesn’t occur, we’ll still keep moving for it because, again, the status quo is
unacceptable.”
Paul Ryan
Paul
Ryan is a potential presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, a member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, was a guest
at the Koch Industries annual conference,
and a recipient of "Defender of the American Dream" award for the Americans for Prosperity.
Note: National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is a paid for staff by the Economic Policy Institute, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Committee
for a Responsible Federal Budget was housed at the New America Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Economic Policy Institute, the New
America Foundation, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Committee
for Economic Development.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Marc B. Nathanson
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a board of councilor’s member for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Geneva
Overholser was a director of the School
of Journalism for the Annenberg School for Communication, and
an editor for the Des Moines Register.
David
H. Koch is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), the chairman for the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, and the EVP for Koch Industries.
Americans
for Prosperity Foundation is an affiliated group with the Americans for Prosperity.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries
annual conference.
John
Brademas was a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Donna S.
Morea was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and the
EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group
Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov
web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.
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