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ByJuliePace,Erica Werner and Bill Barrow The Associated Press WASHINGTON Donald Trump wants to win the White House in the fall. Paul Ryan wants to save his own vision of the Republi- can Party for the future. Those goals put Trump and Ryan increasingly at odds over both tone and substance as the business- man barrels toward the GOP presidential nomi- nation. While Ryan is ap- pealing for political civil- ity and a party rooted in traditional conservative principles, Trump is buck- ing campaign decorum and embracing policy po- sitions that are sharply at odds with years of GOP or- thodoxy. Their starkly different visions for the Republican Party are a microcosm of the broader fissures roil- ing the GOP. And if Trump does become the Republi- can nominee, he and the House speaker's ability to work together could be the first test of whether a party in this much turmoil can stay together. "Trump's obviously run- ning on issues that are con- trary to conservatives and at odds with what a lot of what Paul Ryan believes," said Peter Wehner, a former adviser to President George W. Bush. For now, Trump and Ryan are engaged largely in a cold war, with the pol- iticians only occasionally mentioning each other by name. Ryan has picked key moments to draw implicit contrasts with Trump, in- cluding condemning the billionaire's refusal to take responsibility for violence at his rallies. Trump will launch the next volley Tues- day when he campaigns in Ryan's hometown of Janes- ville, Wisconsin, ahead of the state's April 5 primary. Trump, in his trademark contradictory style, has both praised Ryan and om- inously warned the speaker against crossing him. "Paul Ryan, I don't know him well, but I'm sure I'm going to get along with him, and if I don't, he's going to have to pay a big price, OK?" Trump said after his victories on Super Tuesday. A week later, after speaking with Ryan by phone, Trump said of the speaker: "I like him a lot. I respect him a lot." People close to Ryan say the Wisconsin lawmaker is in disbelief about Trump's staying power. While he's publicly vowed to support whomever his party nom- inates, Ryan has privately said he's focused on trying to keep the GOP's House majority this fall and on fundraising for the party — leaving some friends with the impression that he would be a less-than-en- thusiastic Trump backer in a general election. Looming large are Ryan's own political ambitions. He passed on running for the White House in 2016, but some Republicans still har- bor hopes that the House speaker could emerge as the nominee in a contested convention fight this sum- mer. That's if Trump or ri- val Ted Cruz fail to accumu- late the delegates needed to clinch the nomination. "I would be less than honest with you if I said people are not mentioning a Ryan candidacy from time to time," said Rep. Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvania Re- publican who meets reg- ularly with Ryan. "Clearly there are many in Congress who see Paul Ryan as a con- sensus candidate." Ryan has vigorously de- nied that he's interested, though he was similarly de- finitive last year when he re- buffed calls to run for the speaker's job. He's also in- sisted that his role as chair- man of the July convention requires him to remain of- ficially neutral despite his obvious displeasure with Trump. Yet Ryan's refusal to fully disavow Trump has left him open to criticism that he ei- ther cares too much about keeping the real estate mo- gul's enthusiastic support- ers in the Republican fold or that he doesn't fully un- derstand the threat posed by the GOP front-runner. "The barbarian is at the gate, and Paul Ryan wants to talk sense to him?" wrote David D. Haynes, the edito- rial page editor of the Mil- waukee Journal Sentinel, the largest newspaper in Ryan's home state. Ryan has been working behind the scenes to pro- duce plans on issues includ- ing health care, the econ- omy and national security. Though not the original in- tent of Ryan's "agenda proj- ect," the effort could give Republicans something to run on if they can't or don't want to hitch themselves to the GOP nominee. "I think what the Ameri- can people are starved for is a positive agenda," said Rep Tom Price, R-Ga., chairman of the House Budget Com- mittee and a close Ryan ally. Trump's own policy pro- posals, though often vague, have sometimes sharply conflicted with where Ryan is trying to position the party, particularly on eco- nomic issues. Ryan rose to promi- nence among Republicans for spending proposals that eventually would privatize government entitlement programs, dramatically re- ducing those operations' share of federal spending over time. While Trump has joined Republicans in bemoaning alleged abuses of entitlement programs, he's long blasted proposals like Ryan's. "As Republicans, if you think you are going to change very substantially for the worse Medicare, Medicaid and Social Se- curity in any substantial way, and at the same time you think you are going to win elections, it just really is not going to happen," Trump said during a 2013 appearance at the Conser- vative Political Action Con- ference. Trump has also spent decades criticizing U.S. trade policy and advocat- ing steep tariffs on Chinese imports. It's a protectionist argument that puts him at odds with decades of Re- publican support for in- ternational trade, though he's in line with a growing contingent of House Re- publicans who see sweep- ing foreign trade deals as detrimental to American workers. Before becoming speaker, Ryan was among the most vocal House Republicans in backing trade agreements, including President Barack Obama's Asia-Pacific pact. 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