A Missouri delegate to the Republican National Convention is part of a coalition seeking to block Donald Trump from winning the party’s presidential nomination.
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That leaves Trump and the GOP with several essential goals, the experts said.
Some worrisome signs for the campaign did appear Friday evening: One pro-Trump super PAC, Committee for American Sovereignty, that planned to raise $20 million by the Republican convention only took in $45,000 by July 1. Ted Cruz of Texas with just 28 percent of the vote.
But, he added, Trump can’t win without Republicans.
A spokeswoman for the Republican National Convention did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Bearden was elected to attend the national convention as a Trump delegate after Cruz supporters outmaneuvered Trump loyalists at regional caucuses. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is scheduled to speak to the NAACP on Monday.
“I think what he shouldn’t do and is still doing is bad-mouthing people in the party who still aren’t on board”, said Professor Helmut Norpoth, a political scientist at Stony Brook University. “He can’t seem to help it, for anyone not kowtowing to him”. That convention, she said, “was a rah-rah session”.
Smith said there is a movement still to unseat Trump as the nominee, and there are possibilities – albeit long-shot possibilities – to unseat Trump.
A schedule released by the convention today does not include speaking times for Florida Gov. Rick Scott or Karen Vaughn, the Martin County mother of a Navy Seal who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011.
They’re first trying to change party rules to allow delegates to cast “a vote of conscience” and abandon Trump.
Suarez noted that Trump said he would stop talking about Curiel – and he did.
Conservatives are particularly troubled that Trump hasn’t said more about respecting limits to presidential powers – a touchy issue since President Barack Obama used his executive power to grant amnesty to prevent deportations and to tighten gun regulations. “It’s hard to figure out sometimes what he’s thinking”. “What does it say about our democracy that we have this process, and then not support the results because we don’t like the victor?” He’s got to let the primaries go.
“It doesn’t matter who his VP pick is, it doesn’t matter what speech he gives, it doesn’t matter what he says”, he said. “We’re all going to vote for Donald Trump – I don’t think there’s going to be an alternative”.
“I would say the most important thing is what he says to the battleground states”, Norpoth said.
“It’s hard not to like Mike Pence”.
Among those issuing statements of support Friday were Gov. Phil Bryant, Sen.
After months of campaign rhetoric on the campaign trail, those still struggling with their feelings for Trump said they need to hear more specifics. Harper served four years in the House with Pence and admires him.
Unruh’s amendment became the focal point of furious lobbying that for weeks pitted conservatives against the Trump campaign and top leaders of the Republican Party.
Bryant said Pence has been “one of the nation’s leading Republican governors”.
“Hispanic people are still hurt by what Mr. Trump has said in the past”, said Suarez, who cited Trump’s comments in June questioning the objectivity of U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel.
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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“That’s his best strategy”.
