News reports that Tim Tebow would be among the featured speakers at the upcoming Republican National Convention surprised some people – including Tebow himself.
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From bomb-sniffing dogs to bomb-disposal robots, the city and nation is working to prevent any disruptions.
“That is a God-given right that shouldn’t be taken away by the RNC or any state”, she said. He attended his first convention four years ago in Tampa, where police patrolled on water and on land. “So we’re not going to change the wheel”, he said on Fox. “I’m really not expecting any problems”. Of course, without momentum coming out of the Rules Committee meeting the longshot effort to stop Trump at the convention has become even longer. “There should be absolutely no question as to who we vote for”, said Arizona delegate Bruce Ash.
Eric O’Keefe, a leader of the Delegates Unbound group that is also opposing Trump’s nomination, told BuzzFeed News that a plan was “in development” now that the conscience clause has been lost.
Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort declared victory shortly thereafter. That panel’s initial votes are expected to demonstrate how firmly Trump and GOP Chairman Reince Priebus control the convention, which meets in full next week.
“Anti-Trump people get crushed at Rules Committee. If the delegates were bound as the RNC claimed why vote to bind them?”
The Trump campaign and RNC leaders wanted to avoid a public display of internal party strife at the convention, which they hope instead to choreograph as a show of unity behind their nominee.
Talks are also ongoing about an effort by former Ted Cruz delegate director Ken Cuccinelli to change GOP rules to close primaries and caucuses in 2020 from non-Republicans.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee supported the failed amendment and said Trump still needs to “make the case” to Republican delegates before he can persuade all voters that he should be president. Unruh joked as she introduced her amendment to the committee.
Late Thursday night, when the political world was consumed by yet another terrorist attack, as well as the last-minute confusion of Donald Trump’s vice presidential rollout, the #NeverTrump movement died its last death. In another, the panel used a voice vote to defeat a plan to bar members of the RNC from being lobbyists – a profession that employs many of them back in their home states, though it would have exempted lobbyists for non-profit organizations.
Both sides agreed that the bargaining broke down over an effort by conservatives to provide extra convention delegates to states with primaries closed to independent and Democratic voters, many of whom flocked to Trump in this year’s voting.
A partial list of speakers released Thursday by the Republican National Convention committee was heavier on politicians and business executives, including Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Colony Capital founder Tom Barrack.
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“During the pause as we were trying to get all of this together, we were approached by a number of members. who asked if they could have a period of time who asked if they could work out their differences”.
