If a majority of convention delegates back the rules package, delegates are freed to vote for any candidate to be presidential nominee.
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Cruz is not publicly a part of the effort, and his campaign office did not respond to a question as to whether he supports it. He will be speaking at the convention next week.
In the Republican primaries, around 16 million voted against Donald Trump. “If our party wants a future … we must evolve”, said Ms Huff, from Washington DC, her voice cracking with emotion. The Democratic convention will follow the Republican convention in Philadelphia.
The rebellious delegates have seemed well-organized – and relentless – and party leaders have stepped up their activities to head them off.
“In the balance of things, the good clearly outweighs the things I don’t agree with”, Ryan said. “There are people in this country for whom the party convention is the equivalent of the Super Bowl – and those are the people you can trust to go every four years”. “That’s the beauty of how it works”.
People completely new to politics called the Trump campaign looking for hats or signs and ended up as delegates to the Republican National Convention.
He also denounced the candidate for taking up the issue “on a whim” and said that Mr. Trump did not support VA privatization last fall.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of the most vulnerable members, said he could not go to Cleveland because “I’ve got to spend as much time in Wisconsin as possible”.
Trump strongholds, like Diane Schindlbeck, a Trump delegate, said the real estate mogul’s decisive primary victories speak for themselves.
Despite this claim, the GOP convention’s current rules state that the secretary must record the vote in line with the delegation’s binding, regardless of the tally announced by the state’s delegation chair. Trump’s forces have already mobilized to appeal the decision and the national party has told Virginia delegates that they are bound by the rules of the RNC – a private organization – which don’t protect their individual voting rights.
Gov. Scott Walker told a CNN affiliate this month that he would speak at the RNC; despite criticizing Trump in the past, Walker has argued that not supporting Trump is akin to supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton. The former mayor, who ran New York City during the 9/11 attacks and is extremely conservative on national security issues, has often defended Trump’s more controversial policies on homeland security.
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But such moves aren’t easy, because the convention’s presiding officer who at times will be Priebus or House Speaker Paul Ryan has clout to decide who to recognize on the convention floor to make procedural motions.
