Source: Politics<\/p>\n
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan praised outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday, even as he acknowledged his policy differences with her. <\/p>\n
“Obviously, she and I usually disagree on things, but first woman speaker \u2014 a career to be proud of,” Ryan said on ABC’s “This Week.” <\/p>\n
Pelosi served two stints of four years as speaker, both before and immediately after Ryan’s two terms in the role. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s an impressive legacy,” Ryan told host Jonathan Karl. <\/p>\n
The Republican also said he’s been thinking “about her husband, Paul, a lot these days.”<\/p>\n
“I just feel so awful about what happened to them,” Ryan said. Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer<\/a> last month, by someone allegedly seeking to harm the speaker and other Democrats. <\/p>\n Acknowledging his party’s unexpectedly underwhelming performance in this month’s midterm elections, Ryan blamed former President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n If Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, Republicans will “likely lose the White House,” Ryan said. <\/p>\n “I am a never-again-Trumper,” Ryan said, invoking the “never-Trumper” branch of his party that rejected Trump as its nominee in 2016. “Why? Because I want to win.”<\/p>\n