Republican Sen. Jeff Flake turned up in news accounts last week when his party’s presidential candidate predicted Flake would lose his re-election bid in Arizona.
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Unlike recent national conventions, when the Republican party meets in Cleveland July 18-21, there’s the potential for high drama.
Critics of the effort say that the plan lacks the votes it needs and would thwart the will of about 13.3 million people who backed Trump in the party’s primaries and caucuses. If anti-Trump forces are to survive, they must find 28 votes on the 112-member panel – enough to pass a minority report that could recommend freeing delegates to vote for whomever they please.
“By co-opting Cruz and giving him a speaking slot, the Trump campaign sucked some of the wind out of the anti-Trump sails”, said CNN delegate analyst and former Marco Rubio campaign aide Will Holley.
Cleveland’s police chief said Wednesday that while he’d prefer that people not openly carry firearms during next week’s Republican National Convention in the city, state law allows for it and police will do everything possible to keep everyone safe.
This is the flip side of Trump’s unconventional approach to the presidential race. It’s all going down.
Ryan also talked about the month he spent going over the Republican agenda with Trump prior to endorsing him; an agenda he says that does not reflect what Hillary Clinton wants as president.
Asked Monday if he was anxious about the anti-Trump delegates, as he attempts to run a smooth convention, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said, “I’m not”. Democrats have dreamed of winning the state in past elections, only to fall short.
Feaman, who is Palm Beach County’s Republican committeeman and Florida’s Republican National Committeeman, opposes efforts to dislodge Trump. While supporters are united against Trump, they are divided about who an alternative should be.
“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 nearly all delegates to back a specific candidate, based on state primaries and caucuses. At this point, the cake is baked.
The interview came after Flake’s much noticed confrontation with Trump. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called the anti-Trump Republicans “sore losers” on Tuesday.
“All of y’all have undoubtedly received emails that begin with the sentence, ‘No delegate is bound.’ That’s not true”, the attorney said.
But Unruh conceded that most Republicans are “rule-followers”. He also expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a contentious topic for most Republicans.
“These are the rules and they have always been the rules and they should be applied”, Orrock said. His “Delegates Unbound” group is working to whip up support for a ditch-Trump effort among the convention’s 2,472 delegates.
One, that “delegates do vote their conscience and not try to be manipulated or guided or pushed by the RNC and the Trump campaign”. That’s where Unruh will make her proposal.
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“If we lose and it was a fair process, you don’t walk out with that root of bitterness”, Unruh said. Steel said. “This is her moment in the sun”.
