students pre-submitted questions and paul ryan<u+2019>s office decided which were posed during a q-and-a session that lasted more than 20 minutes. | getty they deny filtering out questions about donald trump. by rachael bade 10/14/16 03:46 pm edt madison, wis. <u+2014> paul ryan was not asked a single question about gop nominee donald trump during a town hall event with college republicans here friday. coincidence? story continued below according to wisconsin gov. scott walker<u+2019>s son, alex walker, who leads the conservative students group at the university of wisconsin-madison, students pre-submitted questions and ryan<u+2019>s office decided which were posed during a q-and-a session that lasted more than 20 minutes. <u+201c>that was handled on speaker ryan<u+2019>s side,<u+201d> walker said when asked who picked the questions. <u+201c>we had a number submitted and they got through as many as they could<u+2026> as far as we know they just went through as many as they could.<u+201d> a spokesman for ryan said the lack of questions about trump wasn't intentional. <u+201c>the students submitted questions and paul answered as many as he was able to in the time allotted,<u+201d> said team ryan spokesman zack roday. <u+201c>we didn't filter out any questions about trump, no." two women in the school<u+2019>s college republicans group, who asked not to be named, told politico after the speech they were surprised no questions about trump were asked. others, however, said they found it refreshing that ryan focused on policy. <u+201c>we don<u+2019>t like to focus on the bad things and the drama of the election but more of the solutions and policy prescriptions we need,<u+201d> said michael gilger, an 18-year-old freshman. by michael grunwald by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz
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