After weeks of holding out, House speaker Paul Ryan has now endorsed Donald Trump for president. 

In a statement released Thursday, Paul Ryan outlined his complex reasoning for finally choosing to support the real-estate mogul, stating he now felt comfortable that Trump will help bring America into a future that he and House Republicans agree with. 

This month, we’ll show the country what a better tax code looks like. We’ll outline a plan not just for repealing Obamacare but replacing it with a better system, more focused on patients, choices and lower costs. We’ll offer a plan to restore the Constitution and the separation of powers that decades of executive overreach have eroded. We’ll present the ideal national security and foreign policy to keep Americans safe. We’ll show how we can reform rules and regulations so they’re spurring the economy and creating jobs, not destroying them. And we’ll offer a better way to help lift people out of poverty and into lives of self-determination.

Though Ryan acknowledged he and Donald Trump share disagreements, he stated that after getting a chance to talk with the billionaire for several months about certain issues, he now feels confident in his ability to lead America. 

We’ve talked about the common ground this agenda can represent. We’ve discussed how the House can be a driver of policy ideas. We’ve talked about how important these reforms are to saving our country. And we’ve talked about how, by focusing on issues that unite Republicans, we can work together to heal the fissures developed through the primary.

Through these conversations, I feel confident he would help us turn the ideas in this agenda into laws to help improve people’s lives. That’s why I’ll be voting for him this fall.

For Ryan, the unity of the republican party concerned him most and felt that by not supporting Trump, the country would end up with Hillary, which he could not tolerate. 

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