There remains a chance Republican delegates to the convention in Cleveland will be freed of their obligation to support Trump and permitted – as conservative writer William Kristol put it – to vote their conscience.
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“I don’t think rounding up 11 million people is A, the right thing to do, B, would work and I don’t think you’d like to see what we’d have to do to the country to do that”, Ryan said. “I’m hearing less and less of it, actually”.
“I think it is out of place in an appointed branch of government”. An Associated Press count shows that Trump has 1,543 delegates ready to back his nomination – more than the 1,273 he needs to officially clinch the top slot.
“There are some minority groups out there saying “dump Trump” or “never Trump”. Among those who gave up their seats is Rhode Island delegate Dawson Hodgson, a former state senator and 2014 candidate for attorney general, who resigned as a delegate because he wants no part in nominating Trump.
“In Florida, Donald Trump is getting only 21 percent of the non-white vote”, said Brown.
“The next person on the Supreme Court will shape this court for probably a generation, nearly 25 years”, Ryan said. She claims at least 28 members of the 112-member convention rules committee will support her – which if true would mean the full convention could vote on her proposal. Unruh has been touting that she has the votes needed, but an informal survey of Republicans behind the scenes at the RNC summer meeting Monday and Tuesday suggested they are not there yet. They’re up against an alliance between the Trump campaign and leaders of the Republican National Committee, which this week includes two dozen campaign operatives combing hotel lobbies and convention corridors counting votes and pressing delegates to oppose the dissidents.
“There’s so much energy to do this”, said Dane Waters, co-founder of Delegates Unbound, one group challenging the widely held conventional wisdom that GOP rules require almost all delegates to back a specific candidate, based on state primaries and caucuses.
But the strategy so far, which has relied heavily on email bombardment of rules members, has struggled to find traction among their target audience.
“Everybody is going to be out there working for Trump; everybody will be on the Trump train”, said Hooper.
“You ran that ad”, Scheffler said to Spiker.
Why is it so important for Trump to pick a reliable conservative?
House Speaker Paul Ryan said his decision to endorse Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump was a “binary choice”.
“It concerns me when the Republican leadership is supporting somebody who’s openly racist, and has said Islamophobic statements, wants to shut down our borders”, Marcone said during a CNN town hall event Tuesday night.
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“It is not my job as chairman of the convention to tell the delegates how to run their convention”, Ryan said.
