Donald Trump will work with Speaker Paul Ryan in the future, despite the GOP nominee's controversial decision not to endorse Ryan in his primary contest, according to a Trump senior adviser.
In an interview Wednesday on CNN's "At This Hour," Trump adviser and pollster Kellyanne Conway said about the pair: "They do talk, their staffs do talk regularly. There's been a very good relationship…"
"When Paul Ryan is renominated in his party next week and when he is reelected in the fall and reelected as Speaker of the House, President Trump will work with him," Conway said.
"What I think he'll do is work very closely as President Trump with Speaker Ryan," she added.
She also denied the Trump snub was "payback" for Ryan's declaration in May he wasn't "there yet" for an endorsement of Trump, asserting the nominee made a "clever play on words" using similar words.
"That's classic Donald Trump," she said. "Payback would be endorsing the opponent [businessman Paul Nehlan] and actively campaigning for him like a lot of folks [outside the campaign] have urged him to." So far, Trump has only praised Nehlen on Twitter.
Of Trump's war of words with the Muslim parents of fallen hero Army Capt. Humayun Khan, and concern over his relationship with Russia, Conway commented, "campaigns have ebbs and flows," adding however, "we also would love more coverage of Hillary Clinton."
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