Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said it is very clear that Donald Trump lost the presidential election in November.
“President Trump lost the election. Joe Biden won the election,” Ryan told WISN 12 on Monday.
“It was not rigged. It was not stolen. Donald Trump lost the election. Joe Biden won the election. It’s really clear,” he added.
Ryan’s comments come as Republicans in Wisconsin are moving ahead with a forensic audit of the ballots cast in the November presidential in the state. Biden won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes.
Ryan said Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the election in court were thrown out and he “legitimately lost” the election.
“He exhausted the court challenges,” Ryan said. “None of them went his way, so he legitimately lost. Is there mischief, organized shenanigans in elections? Sure. Is there fraud? Yes. Was it organized to the extent that it would have swung the Electoral College and the presidential election? Absolutely not.”
Ryan also said Trump is damaging the Republican Party and they will continue to lose elections if they do not distance themselves from the twice impeached one-term president.
“I think it’s a big mistake for the Republican Party to be a party about a person or personality,” Ryan said. “And I think we’ll just keep losing if we wrap ourselves around one person. We have not lost this much this fast in a long, long time.”
