WASHINGTON: US House Speaker Paul Ryan beat back a challenge in the Wisconsin Republican primaries Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), winning a race in which presidential hopeful Donald Trump had praised his populist rival.
In a year full of US presidential race firsts, and with incumbent lawmakers under tough scrutiny, a loss by Ryan would have further jolted the rattled US political establishment as it eyes a White House election pitting Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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