Sen. John McCain says he was shocked to hear House Speaker Paul Ryan's formal decision not to accept the presidential nomination should Republicans hand it to him.

"I'm at a loss, OK? I do not know what's going to happen," the Arizona Republican told Bloomberg Politics. "I just don't see that a lot of it's going to turn out well. Because there are too many divisions within our party."

From the Republican National Committee's headquarters Tuesday, Ryan shot down the idea he would be the party's nominee at a contested convention.

"Let me speak directly to the delegates on this," the Wisconsin congressman said. "If no candidate has a majority on the first ballot, I believe you should only choose a person who actually participated in the primary."

The hope of establishment Republicans like McCain that Ryan, who also serves at the chairman of the GOP convention, would unite the party as the 2016 nominee is now dead in the water.

"We've got so many problems, there are a myriad of problems. None of this is going to turn out well for the Republican Party," McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee, told Bloomberg.

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