Exit question from a “Dump Trump” delegate: Why is Trump afraid of a “conscience” rule?
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All are among the GOP senators who will be skipping next week’s convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will claim the Republican Party presidential nomination. We used to love Donald Trump, because, like many people we fuck with, The Donald likes gaudy gold shit, owns a lot of flashy cars while living in an apartment, and he loves to brag about how he’s getting money and bad bitches. But after a string of Trump victories in the Northeast and in forced Ted Cruz and John Kasich out of the race, that effort died.
Anthony Anderson is another Trump delegate.
Numerous delegates to both conventions will arrive a few days early to plunge into the process. But, one area that has some gay Republicans up in arms is on topics addressing members of the LGBTQ community. As of the end of last month, 31 of Trump’s California delegates had given a combined $2.2 million to his primary rivals and their super PACs.
One of the leaders of the “Anybody But Trump” movement is Kendal Unruh, a school teacher from Castle Rock.
Unruh teaches government at a small Christian high school.
Delegates from the American Unity Fund, a Republican advocacy group funded by pro-LGBT billionaire Paul Singer, had lobbied hard for their fellow panel members to bring up measures that would moderate the Republican party’s stances on gay marriage and discrimination laws.
She said it was especially damaging the party with young people to be fighting so stridently to maintain what she called “very hurtful, very mean-spirited” language including declaring families without a married mother and father to be damaging to society and to children.
Even Sen. Rob Portman of OH, a vulnerable senator whose state is playing host to the convention, said he will only be dropping into the convention hall from time to time, but not delivering a speech or staying to watch speeches from others.
Several platform subcommittees have seen heated exchanges over the subject, and some delegates who failed to read a petition calling for a floor vote on the matter are now accusing LGBT rights activists of using “duplicitous tactics”.
But Unruh conceded that most Republicans are “rule-followers”.
The convention rules committee can make recommendations, but it will be up to all 168 members to make the final decision. That’s where Unruh will make her proposal. They could also organize mass abstentions created to hold Trump under 1,237 votes on the first ballot; if Evans is right that there are only 890 committed to him, those who are bound by the rules to support Trump but don’t want him as nominee could simply skip the first ballot, then come back for the second where delegates are unbound.
Members of the Republican Platform Committee endorsed some of the presumptive presidential nominee’s proposals, voting Tuesday to include language on immigration as well as a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to The Hill.
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