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Houston delegates head to Cleveland for RNC

Wayne Richard, a Trump supporter who lives in Plano, likes Trump’s pick.

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In these final days before the convention, some party members tried and failed to unbind delegates so they wouldn’t necessarily have to vote for presumptive nominee Donald Trump. As Frey spoke on his cell phone Monday from outside the convention center in Cleveland, his voice was drowned out for a while by noisy protesters – about 50 of them, he said, nearby, taking advantage of their free speech rights.

“It may take some work, ” said Letlow. “I think it was a great choice for Trump to reunite the party”.

Cleveland has banned drones, limited the size of bags people can carry and on Friday removed opaque rubbish bins near the Quicken Loans Arena convention site, replacing them with wire frames holding clear plastic waste bags that make it more hard to hide objects. Neither will Sen. Rob Portman, although he does support Trump. Ted Cruz. Trump won the state’s GOP primary with 41.4 percent of the vote.

“We’re seeing a big increase in actual security personnel requests”, he said. When Trump became the de-facto nominee in May, Scott’s campaign told McClatchy that as he had “consistently said over the past year”, he would support the Republican nominee. He called the gathering a chance for Clinton and Trump to provide “a window into not only their policies, but into their heart and character as a candidate”.

Johnson said 3,000 Homeland Security personnel, including Secret Service, TSA, the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection, will be positioned at both conventions. “Come, say whatever it is that you want to say, make whatever point it is that you want to make, but it’s going to be very, very hard to deal with the RNC as it is”.

Anti-Trump delegates in the audience included a contingent from Texas.

He’s pledged his support to Cruz but says he’ll eventually back Trump.

That may come as a surprise to many who look at our nominee as the worst candidate in years but from an operational and financial entity, the RNC has never been more organized and voter-educated as we are now. However, in view of the outrageous and tragic events in Nice, France, I suspect my freedom to simply walk around and observe outside the arena will be seriously limited. “I think he will make the right moves”.

Unruh had previously said she would get the signatures of 28 rules committee members that are required to force a convention vote on her plan.

When 169 alternate delegates are added in, California will send 341 delegates – the largest delegation of any state – to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, which will host 2,472 delegates from across the nation. “I think it’s very important that the country get off the Barack Obama track”. Shafer says that this should not be a huge problem for Trump, as candidates don’t always point to the platform as their mantra.

The national convention will be a “much different experience” than those at the state level, he said.

The convention provides a global stage for fresh attacks on Clinton after the Federal Bureau of Investigation this month reported she was “extremely careless” in her use of a private server to handle confidential emails as secretary of state, yet recommended no prosecution.

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“Donald’s a showman and he’s real good at it”, said Schulte.

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