Sarah Palin blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan in an interview aired Sunday, vowing to campaign for his Wisconsin GOP primary opponent, Paul Nehlen.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Palin said Ryan’s announcement that he wasn’t ready to support Trump showed he was “disconnected” and said that he was “soon to be Cantor-ed,” referring to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was defeated in a stunning 2014 primary in Virginia.
“Paul Ryan and his ilk, their problem is they have become so disconnected from the people they were elected to represent,” said Palin, the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential candidate. “Their problem is they feel so threatened at this point that their power, their prestige, their purse will be adversely affected by this change that is coming with Trump.”
Following Ryan’s announcement last week that he wasn’t ready to support Trump, Nehlen suggested he would back the real-estate mogul ahead of the primary for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional district.
Palin said she “will do whatever I can” to help Nehlen, noting that she hadn’t had a chance yet to call the candidate to inform him of her support.
She also suggested Ryan’s announcement might be motivated by his own presidential ambitions.
“If the GOP were to win now, that wouldn’t bode well for his chances in 2020,” she said. “I think that one is Paul Ryan’s reason.”
