Paul Ryan: Trump would lose if he is 2024 GOP nominee

Former US House Speaker Paul Ryan says former President Donald Trump would probably lose if he is the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

“I think we probably lose the White House with Trump,” Ryan, a Republican, told ABC News on Sunday.

“And if there’s someone not named Trump, my guess is we win the White House,” added Ryan, who was Senator Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) running mate in the 2012 presidential election.

Ryan, who had an uneasy relationship with Trump during his time in the House leadership, said that the former president is unelectable, citing the recent losses in the midterm elections by candidates endorsed by Trump.

“I think he’s going to continue to lose altitude because we want to win. And we know with him we lose. We have a string of losses to prove that point,” Ryan added, referring to Trump. “And there are a lot of really good, capable conservatives who people I think like that are more than capable of not only being good conservatives in office but can win elections.”

Ryan also said the Republican Party would have had better results on November 8 if Trump wasn’t involved in the election campaign.

“I’m proud of the accomplishments [during the Trump administration] — of the tax reform, the deregulation and criminal justice reform — I’m really excited about the judges we got on the bench, not just the Supreme Court, but throughout the judiciary,” Ryan told the American broadcaster. “But I am a Never-Again-Trumper. Why? Because I want to win, and we lose with Trump.”

While Republicans secured the House with a slim majority, they failed to win the Senate.

Trump had called for a Republican “giant red wave” to defeat Democrats, and the GOP achieved a much smaller victory than had been predicted.

Ryan put the blame directly on the former president.