Paul Ryan Faces Sanders-Backed Challenger in 2018
Paul Ryan is about to get a serious contender from the left.
A former campaign surrogate during Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is preparing to challenge Paul Ryan for his House seat, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Local labor activist Randy Bryce is looking to tie Ryan with Trump in hopes of riding what Democrats say could be a wave of victories for their party in the 2018 midterm elections.
“They’re handcuffed together,” Bryce told The Wall Street Journal. “People are having buyer’s remorse and they’re seeing what’s going on. Trump made a lot of promises that I can see why working people would support, but now they’re waking up.”
And with Trump’s approval ratings sinking lower and lower, Paul Ryan, and other House Republicans, should be afraid as they head into the next election.
Ryan has been in Congress since 1998 and has only once received less than 60 percent of the vote in his district.
