Trump endorses Ryan in effort to right campaign ship

Trump also endorsed two other Republican senators seeking re-election, after expressing coolness toward them earlier this week. 

“I need a Republican Senate and a House to accomplish all of the changes that we have to make,” Trump said during a rally in Green Bay, in northern Wisconsin, Ryan’s home state. He also endorsed Senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, calling Ayotte a ‘rising star’.

“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends,” Trump said, Trump earlier this week refused to endorse Ryan, telling The Washington Post he was ‘not quite there yet’ - nearly the same phrase Ryan had used about Trump before finally endorsing him. 

Trump said in the same interview that McCain had not done enough for veterans and criticised Ayotte for distancing herself from him during the campaign. 

Ryan, the top US elected Republican, had no plans to attend the Wisconsin event, a sign of lingering frictions between the pair, even though Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, did endorse him. Ryan’s Republican primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, did attend, according to a spokesman.