Donald Trump on Saturday claimed most of the money he has been collecting at his recent fundraisers will go to the Republican Party, but if GOP does not support him, he threatens to self-fund his campaign. The company specifically cited controversial comments made by presumptive party nominee Donald Trump as the reason behind its decision.
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“This is about will the delegates, will the grass roots, rise up and do what’s right”, Minor said. “I thought they already tried that”.
To win the nomination on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention next month and avoid a contested convention, Trump needs only 1,237 delegates. The move comes as opinion polls indicate that Trump’s popularity is waning.
“This literally is an “Anybody but Trump” movement”, Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh, who backed Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the primaries and is leading the anti-Trump effort, told the newspaper. “We don’t have a picture on the box as to who the nominee will be if this works”, she said.
Trump said during his Las Vegas rally that he raised $12-13 million for the party “between yesterday and today”, a number he repeated in an NBC News interview.
He continued, “He won the election”.
By party rules, the majority of delegates are bound to vote for Trump on the convention floor, so any successful coup would require freeing those delegates from their commitments in direct violation of current party rules.
“Jeb is one of the people that’s working – and the other one should be obvious”, he said, though he didn’t elaborate further. “You know? OK? Just a little bit”.
Donald Trump gestures to his camouflaged “Make America Great” hat at a campaign rally.
Tech companies, including Apple, support efforts to attract and retain highly-skilled migrant workers to the U.S. Trump’s immigration policy is seen as hurting the recruitment efforts by the tech giants.
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In a press release, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that House Republicans should “follow their conscience” on whether to support Trump. They are convinced Trump is an insufficiently conservative candidate and believe they will find enough like-minded Republicans within the next month to change party rules and allow delegates to vote for whomever they want, regardless of who won their state caucus or primary. One anti-Trump protestor tells Politico that tech companies need to decide “whether they want to align their brand with racism, hatred and misogyny”. “I get that this a very odd situation”, said Ryan.
