From Politico: GOP insiders to Trump: Leave the policy to Paul Ryan

If this is true, then the big winner seems in this election was House Speaker Paul Ryan. It also suggests that the powers of the presidency might be weakened - or at least curtailed - by a Trump presidency. Assuming he listens to insiders of course, but the president has little control over Congress, so there may be a point here.

ALl this assumes also that Ryan remains speaker.

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Voters in the battleground states swept Donald Trump into the White House this week. But Republican insiders in those states want House Speaker Paul Ryan, not the newly elected president, driving the policy agenda in GOP-dominated Washington next year.

That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states, seven of which Trump captured on Election Day or is ahead in the ongoing vote count.

Roughly two-thirds of Republican insiders, 65 percent, think Ryan, who is expected to serve as speaker in the new Congress, should have more influence over policy when Trump is inaugurated next January.

“The GOP needs to lift its eyes and spread its wings if we expect to grow,” said a Colorado Republican — who, like all insiders, completed the survey anonymously. “Ryan and his allies are the people to create and share that vision.”

“Donald Trump and policy-making don't really belong in the same sentence,” an Iowa Republican added. “Paul Ryan will make policy and Donald Trump can Make America Great Again.”