Paul Nehlen will be challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan in his GOP House primary on August 9, and he’s featured on Drudge and at the top of Breitbart.com today. For those who pointed out that Trump didn’t have many like-minded legislative candidates, now he has one.
“Before Paul Ryan went to Washington, Wisconsin was a manufacturing powerhouse,” Nehlen says in his campaign video. “Now, not so much.”
Nehlan’s image in his campaign video is about as far as you can get from Ryan: riding a Harley-Davidson, addresses the camera wearing sunglasses and sleeveless shirt, his Molon Labe tattoo prominently displayed.
“TPP is a job killer,” Nehlan says. “It’s going to kill American manufacturing. Mr. Speaker, you championed this trade deal! Why don’t you come back to Wisconsin, and debate me, man to man, face to face on the realities of TPP. And if you won’t debate me, maybe we can arm wrestle.”
While Trump has been winning primaries, so far incumbent House and Senate Republicans have been safe. (Senate incumbents are five-for-five in contested primaries so far.) Ryan is likely to enjoy an enormous financial advantage, but then again, Eric Cantor had an enormous financial advantage as well, and he lost his 2014 primary.
If Ryan does feel threatened by Nehlan, he might point out that he doesn’t have particularly deep roots in the district. A local profile said he “moved to Walworth County several years ago”; according to Nehland’s LinkedIn page, he was working for Atlanta, Georgia-based TydenBrooks SPG until April 2014.






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