DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When dozens of high school students from across Wisconsin marched through his hometown, chanting his name and demanding new gun control laws, Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, was not around to hear them, having just wrapped up a trip to the Czech Republic. But Randy Bryce was… Mr. Bryce is not the only candidate hoping to dethrone a congressional king. Another Democrat, a schoolteacher named Cathy Myers, is also running for her party’s nomination… At 48, Mr. Ryan has represented this corner of southeastern Wisconsin for nearly two decades… But Janesville, a blue-collar community that was hit hard when the local General Motors plant shut down in 2009, has never been solid Ryan territory, and some in his hometown say that since he became speaker — and especially since President Trump took the White House — Mr. Ryan has lost his way.”
–Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Can Paul Ryan Be Defeated? Maybe Not, but His Race Is ‘a Circus’,” The New York Times online, April 4, 2018