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Markay: Ryan's Fueling Speculation About Presidential Run With Trump Exchange

Washington Free Beacon's Lachlan Markay discussed the current divide in the Republican party and Paul Ryan's offer to resign as the Republican National Convention Chair should Donald Trump ask on Fox Business Monday.

Cavuto asked Markay about mainstream Republicans violating their pledge to vote for the Republican nominee, who will almost certainly be Donald Trump.

"He did win fair and square," Cavuto said. "The others said they would support whoever the nominee was if it was dutifully voted on by Republicans in primaries and caucuses across the country, and now some of them are reneging. Does he have a point?"

"He does have a point, and certainly Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush have violated that pledge or have signaled that they will. But I also think in their defense that it's been a number of months since that issue was really at the forefront and in the time since then, Donald Trump has really shown himself to be temperamentally unsuited, unqualified and really not knowledgeable enough to, in my opinion, to fulfill the job the presidency requires," Markay said.

"So in other words, you think they're justified in pivoting like this. Maybe because he, to their liking, has pivoted on issues near and dear to the party," Cavuto said.

Cavuto then asked Markay about the latest news from Ryan, who has offered to step down as the Republican National Convention chair in July, should Trump ask.

"What do you make of that?" Cavuto asked.

"I mean, it is, in a sense, an olive branch to Trump, and I think, you know, he should appreciate that. If he's not satisfied with Ryan being, you know, a neutral arbiter in the convention, then he should look for someone else to fill that role," Markay said. "But I should also say that for all the insistence that, you know, Ryan insists over and over again that he's not eyeing a presidential run at all, he keeps making moves that sort of fuel those questions and, you know, I know his folks are really going to give it to me for saying that, because they've been denying. He is fueling speculation, no doubt about it."