Just like school, even the Republican National Convention has a seating chart. They will be staying at the Cleveland Airport Marriott – minus the state’s two top Republicans.
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But the possibility remains of a last-gasp parliamentary maneuver to “Free the Delegates” and derail Trump. Ted Cruz, in primaries and caucuses, and allow them to vote their consciences.
“One of the reasons why I wanted to be an alternate and still go out there was some of the opportunities that are available at the national convention for networking, sharing of ideas (and) just sitting down with other like-minded people”.
Donald Trump, the Manhattan real estate mogul and reality show star who upended the GOP primary race this year, goes into the four-day convention with enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination.
None of them plans to be on hand for their party’s coronation of Trump and his newly announced VP pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Ted Cruz – though he hasn’t endorsed Trump – and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will deliver speeches.
DeVilbiss said he’s going to Cleveland to ensure voters are represented. Almost half of GOP voter here backed the NY businessman.
Stephen Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said he strongly supported citizens’ rights to bear arms, but he is urging people not to take their guns anywhere near Cleveland’s downtown during the convention.
“He’s different from McCain and Romney”, Triantafilou said of Trump. Here is what they had to say as they pack their bags for Ohio. “We’ve got to stop the nearly innumerable wars that we’re fighting”.
“I want to know more about the man who will lead the Party and the conventions provide a way to do that”. “I hope Cleveland is ready”. Ostensibly, delegates select the presidential nominee, the vice presidential nominee and approve the party platform.
“He campaigned in the primary on a message of anger and divisiveness, and that is not a message that’s going to resonate with the general election”, Barickman said.
That quirk in the rules has led to last-ditch efforts to convince “unbound” delegates to abandon Trump, according to Morelli and Villano, both enthusiastic Trump backers who publicly campaigned for the billionaire businessman from NY.
Both said they had hoped Trump would choose former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as his running mate – Villano said she was “always a Newt fan” – but geography, ideology and personality made Pence a logical choice, they added. He credits Trump with reaching portions of the electorate often ignored by Republicans including working class voters.
“I’m listed as a Cruz delegate”, Anderson said. “Not everybody is all going to move in the same way for everything, but I think we’re a pretty united delegation”. “This is the land of the free, the home of the fearless. So we are a melting pot of cultures”, she said.
Benton says he will attend the Convention as a liaison between the Trump campaign and the Washington Delegation. Instead of the convention, he plans to address the NAACP gathering in Cincinnati on Sunday, a meeting Trump is skipping, and the governor will hang out with Ohio’s delegates at the Rock and Roll of Fame and Museum at a reception Tuesday.
“I’ve seen a lot of concern – in a good way – about putting things behind us and moving on, ” he said.
“I think this is the beginning point of an enthusiastic march towards November behind our (presumptive) presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in order to beat Hillary Clinton in November”, Walsh said. “I think he’s unqualified to be president and commander-in-chief of the military”.
Virginia’s delegates consist of three from each of the 11 congressional districts, 13 at-large, National Committeeman Morton Blackwell, National Committeewoman Kathy Hayden and state GOP Chairman John Whitbeck. He has a full schedule for the trip, and it doesn’t include sight seeing.
Still, a floor fight by anti-Trump forces over convention rules is “for sure”, Graham said, while noting that Arizona rules committee members were solidly backing Trump and noting he thought a successful challenge wasn’t in the cards. Fredericks will broadcast from 6 a.m.to noon live, locally on WHKT-AM 1650.
It includes support for Trump’s much-ballyhooed physical wall along the Mexican border, a call to condemn the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage and opposition to gun reform laws that would restrict access to assault-style rifles.
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And Virginia boasts the delegate who could be the youngest in Cleveland.
