Republican hope: no bid for White House

- The Republican chairman of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, has ruled out a bid for the presidency in November Tuesday. Ryan, who many Republicans who do not warm up to the flamboyant Donald Trump or the arch-conservative Ted Cruz had pinned their hopes, indicated that he would not accept a nomination by his party.

Ryan, who in 2012 as vice president candidate of the Republicans on the side of Mitt Romney tried to capture the White House, said all rumors surrounding his person wanting an end. Speculation in recent times only grew because it appears that none of the remaining candidates in the Republican primaries manages to get a majority of the delegates behind. Then follows a so-called brokered convention, a party congress that through high-pressure negotiations and ballots to choose a presidential candidate, when heavyweight Ryan claimed his fans ever could have come out of the hat.