Since then, the Supreme Court backed the right of same-sex couples to Wednesday. The party’s full platform committee is scheduled to soon convene to debate the matter and others.
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“A man and a woman family is the best, ideal vehicle for raising children”, according to James Bopp, a GOP delegate from IN, and a prominent conservative attorney.
“I support the presumptive nominee, and so putting language in there to support his proposals is a good idea”, said Kelly Armstrong, a Platform Committee member and delegate from North Dakota. Bopp says delegates’ concern “has nothing to do with whether or not gays are getting married”.
GOP platform committee members also handled various housekeeping items, changing words like “should” and “watch”, and calling for “parallel construction” in a sentence.
“It threatens our party because we’re a party of principle, we’re a party of freedom, liberty and equality and… we’re not in line with our own conservative principles”, Hoff told CNN.
“I am confident the minority report will pass”, she said.
Some traditional Republicans from the corporate world are even openly saying they will support Democrat Hillary Clinton. Dougherty works in purchasing and in academics for a career-school chain based in Lake Mary, and also founded the Volusia County Young Republicans Club 16 years ago.
“It was including any specific groups”, Rutledge says.
But with real estate mogul Donald Trump running on an anti-trade, populist platform – while sporting sky-high unpopularity ratings – many bankers and traders want nothing to do with the convention this year.
It appears that most of these remaining 300-plus delegates hate the prospect of chaos even more than they dislike the presumptive nominee.
Representing District 6, which includes Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties, and most of Volusia County, will be Tony Ledbetter, chairman, and Alan Burton, committeeman, for the Volusia County Republican Party; and William Korach, chairman of the St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee. “Trump’s tax returns are the critical baseline from which voters can judge (Trump’s story of being a businessman) to be real or phony”.
Sen. Tom Cotton: The Arkansas Republican said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “I look forward to talking about our military and our veterans and what we need to do to make sure that we’re serving them so they can serve us”. Multiple outlets confirmed Trump is vetting retired three-star Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as a potential vice president, among other potential picks, including Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
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Committee members endorsed language applying “special scrutiny” of those wishing to enter the US from “regions associated with Islamic terrorism”.
