Jobs over caravan: Ryan to Don

House Speaker Paul Ryan pleaded with President Trump to tout the booming economy rather than continue attacking the migrant caravan in the final days before the midterm elections, according to a report Monday.

The Wisconsin Republican called Trump Sunday, but the president said immigration fires up his base, Politico reported.

“Trump has hijacked the election,” a senior House Republican aide told Politico about Trump’s attention to immigration.

“This is not what we expected the final weeks of the election to focus on.”

The president was asked while waiting to board Air Force One for a rally in Cleveland on Monday if the midterms are about his campaign style.

“I don’t think so, but I mean I’m willing to accept that.”

In rallies, Trump has talked up job growth and the economy, but he continues to highlight the thousands of Central American migrants who are trekking to the US border on foot.

At a rally in Montana on Saturday, a day after it was announced the US economy added 250,000 jobs in October, Trump admitted that he can crow about jobs, but that doesn’t keep the crowd spellbound.

“I can only go for four or five minutes with that stuff, and then the crowd says, ‘We love you,’ and then they start dwindling off,” he said.