By Jesse Byrnes - 05-25-16 09:41 AM EDT
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is decrying the "bitterness" of politics in both parties in a new video released on Wednesday.
"I have not seen the kind of bitterness in our politics like we have today," Ryan says in the video, clipped from his remarks at Georgetown University last month.
"And I've got to say, I think it's both sides," he continues. "It doesn't have to be that way.
"Republicans lose personality contests," Ryan adds. "We always do. But we win ideas contests."
The video could be read as a criticism of the scorched-earth tactics being use by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as they eye a showdown in the fall.
Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has raised allegations of sexual assault against former President Bill Clinton in an attack ad on Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. Trump has also entertained conspiracy theories about Vince Foster, the former White House aide to Bill Clinton who committed suicide in 1993.
Clinton's attacks on Trump have also been tough. Her campaign has ripped Trump's comments on the housing market from the mid-2000s, when he suggested he would like to profit if housing prices plunged.
Ryan's office released the video as his aides pushed back on a Bloomberg report from late Tuesday that said he was telling confidants he regretted withholding his endorsement of Trump, and a Trump aide said Ryan planned to back the businessman soon.
"There's no update, and we've not told the Trump campaign to expect an endorsement," a Ryan spokesman told media outlets. "He's also not told anyone he regrets anything."
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