Republican nominee Donald Trump has ripped into House Speaker Paul Ryan as a “weak and ineffective” leader.

He also said Republicans were coming at him “from all sides” and their disloyalty was harder to fight than the Democrats, reports the BBC.

Paul Ryan is the latest Republican not to back Trump after a 2005 video emerged showing him making obscene comments about groping women.

However, Trump has been strongly supported by running mate Mike Pence.

“You have nominated a man for president who never quits, who never backs down. He is a fighter, he is a winner,” Pence said at an event in Iowa, praising him for apologising during Sunday’s debate for his lewd comments.

The renewed party divisions over Trump come as a new PRRI/Atlantic poll suggested Hillary Clinton holds a 49-38 lead over her opponent.

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