Morning Jolt: Are Paul Ryan’s Days as Speaker Numbered?

I have great faith in the reporting of our former colleague, Tim Alberta, so if he reports that Paul Ryan doesn't think he'll be speaker past 2018, I believe him.

Despite several landmark legislative wins this year, and a better-than-expected relationship with President Donald Trump, Ryan has made it known to some of his closest confidants that this will be his final term as speaker. He consults a small crew of family, friends and staff for career advice, and is always cautious not to telegraph his political maneuvers. But the expectation of his impending departure has escaped the hushed confines of Ryan's inner circle and permeated the upper-most echelons of the GOP. In recent interviews with three dozen people who know the speaker -- fellow lawmakers, congressional and administration aides, conservative intellectuals and Republican lobbyists -- not a single person believed Ryan will stay in Congress past 2018.

. . .More recently, over closely held conversations with his kitchen ...

December 15 2017

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Are Paul Ryan's Days as Speaker Numbered? Jim Geraghty I have great faith in the reporting of our former colleague, Tim Alberta, so if he reports that Paul Ryan doesn't think he'll be speaker past 2018, I believe him. Despite several landmark legislative wins this year, and a better-than-expected relationship with President Donald Trump, Ryan has made it known to some of his closest confidants that this will be his final term as speaker. He consults a small crew of family, friends and staff for career advice, and is always cautious not to telegraph his political maneuvers. But the expectation of his impending departure has escaped the hushed confines of Ryan's inner circle and permeated the upper-most echelons of the GOP. In recent interviews with three dozen people who know the speaker -- fellow lawmakers, congressional and administration aides, conservative intellectuals and Republican lobbyists -- not a single person believed Ryan will stay in Congress past 2018. . . .More recently, over closely held conversations with his kitchen ... READ MORE What if America Won a War and No One Cared? David French The announcement came on Saturday. Just three days before the Alabama special election that transfixed the nation, and on the same day that President Trump fact-checked the Washington Post's... Yes, Investigate the Investigators The Editors Yes, Investigate the Investigators ADVERTISEMENT Can Only Trump Survive Trump? Rich Lowry The past two months of electoral losses for the Trump GOP feel very familiar. Newly elected president Barack Obama's party lost off-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and... Picking the Lock in Alabama Michael Barone Turnout would be the key to which of the wildly conflicting polls would best presage the result of Alabama's special Senate election, wrote Republican consultant Patrick Ruffini earlier this... Optimistic Trump Stumps for Tax Cuts Deroy Murdock President Donald J. Trump's tormentors paint him as a brooding grinch who oozes pessimism. The New Republic last October decried "Trump's dark portrayal of the country." But Trump was Mr.... Political Journalists Have Themselves to Blame for Sinking Credibility David Harsanyi 'Our record as journalists in covering this Trump story and the Russian story is pretty good," legendary reporter Carl Bernstein recently claimed. Pretty good? If there's a major news story over... ADVERTISEMENT Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45 Peter Caddick-Adams "[Caddick-Adams] illuminates the Battle of the Bulge until he has run out of facets. He layers context and connections with an inclusive style. Both the reader who knows nothing or little of this battle and the maven steeped in Bulgeiana will come away...educated and sated. Snow and Steel is a treasure." - Michael Dolan, Senior Editor, World War II Magazine LEARN MORE Santa Season Top Shots ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.