Ryan not worried about ‘outside agitator’ Palin

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told a local radio station on Monday that he’s not worried about Sarah Palin’s endorsement of his primary challenger.

Ryan said he’s focused on his constituents and unifying the Republican Party, knocking the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee as “an outside agitator.”

{mosads}“Look, people in Wisconsin know me well, I really don’t have anything to say, only that my focus is on the people of this district and unifying the Republican Party on a core set of principles,” Ryan told Right Wisconsin’s Kevin Binversie on WTMJ, which was first reported by BuzzFeed.

“People know me really well in Wisconsin, they know I am going to stand up for my principles that are conservative principles no matter how popular that may be on a given day. They know me personally very well. I don’t really worry too much about outside agitators,” he added.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, the former Alaska governor said she’s backing Ryan’s primary challenger, Paul Nehlen, following the Speaker’s refusal to support presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump at “this point.”

“This man is a hard-working guy, so in touch with the people,” Palin said. “Paul Ryan and his ilk, their problem is they have become so disconnected by the people whom they are elected to represent.”

“They feel so threatened at this point that their power, their prestige, their purse will be adversely affected by the change that is coming with Trump and with someone like Paul Nehlen, that they’re not thinking straight right now,” she added.