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he day after Election Day, WISN 12 News caught up with former speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, at an event in his hometown Janesville.
Ryan said he spent Tuesday night at home with his family watching the results on TV.
“Republicans didn’t see that red wave like they were predicting,” said WISN 12 News reporter Caroline Reinwald. “Why do you think that is and what kind of lessons do you think Republican leadership should be taking away from that?”
“I think we’re going to have to do a lot of soul searching and head scratching, looking through and parsing the numbers as to why we didn’t perform as well as we would have liked to,” Ryan said. “Ron got re-elected, I’m very happy to see that. It was a mixed blessing night, but we should have done better than we did.”
Ryan pointed to former president Donald Trump as one reason why Republicans may not have performed as well at the polls.
“I think Trump’s kind of a drag on our ticket. I think Donald Trump gives us problems, politically. We lost the House, the Senate and the White House in two years when Trump was on the ballot, or in office,” Ryan said. “I think we just have some Trump hangover. I think he’s a drag on our office, on our races.”
“What do you think’s going to happen if Donald Trump announces he’s going to run for president again?” Reinwald asked.
