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Cleveland Makes Final Preparations Ahead of GOP Convention

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The Minnesota delegation consists of 38 delegates and 35 alternate delegates. “I’ve honored every pledge I’ve ever made from the first time I raised my hand and swore to defend the Constitution when I entered the military”. With him as the presumptive Republican nominee, the unpredictable will return to the convention floor.

Rose said that “when you walk around Decatur, Illinois, and hit the coffee shops in Sullivan and Shelbyville and Paris and talk to people and ask them, ‘Are we heading the right way or the wrong way?’ ” most will reply, “The wrong way”.

The Republican National Convention, which promises to be four days of political discourse with tear gas residue, opens Monday in Cleveland to anoint Donald Trump for an office that few believe he is qualified to fill.

A potentially larger “Stop Trump” march has been permitted by the city for noon on Monday, just hours before the convention kicks off. Activity outside Quicken Loans Arena may or may not rise to the level of chaos, but for the delegates and guests inside, drama will be in short supply.

“My biggest concern (about Trump) was, ‘Is he going to be able to unite the party?’ He’s shown he’s doing that”.

Dave McElwee, a Trump delegate from near Sunbury, Pennsylvania, said Trump should stay focused.

Not everyone would agree. Among the many questions to be resolved this week is whether the Pence selection causes unhappy Republicans to feel better about their presidential ticket. Nor will former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, one of the candidates Trump vanquished in the primary process.

Corey Stewart, chairman of Trump’s campaign in Virginia and chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, will be attending the convention, although not as a delegate.

That includes U.S. Sens.

About half a mile (one km) east of the convention site is a fake advertisement for a company called “Dick to Dick LLC” that ends with the line, “We’re not going to live forever”.

Some of the no-shows, like Sen.

None of that bothers Peter Feamon, a Boynton Beach attorney and member of the Republican National Committee.

“There are delegation events literally nearly every morning, noon and evening”, congressional delegate and state Sen. He agreed to chair the Trump campaign in Hampton Roads after meeting with the NY businessman and reality TV star in July 2015. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be one of the featured speakers.

“The Democratic Party has put up a candidate that has had scandal after scandal after scandal, that has no regard for the law”, Sutterfield said. Pence also will seek to bolster support for Trump among social conservatives and evangelicals. Any election contest is a contrast between choices, and in this election the other choice may be even more risky.

Bijoy Datta, chairman of the Broome County GOP, said he’s hoping to hear Trump establish “a differentiation between what he will do for the country versus what Hillary Clinton will do for the country”.

“We very much wanted John Kasich to be our nominee; we didn’t win the nomination”, Borges said. Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents have been knocking on the doors of activists around the country in search of information, or at least to let them know they’re watching. “He’s a businessman. He’s an outsider”.

On Friday, Hack said Graham was unsuccessful in revoking her credentials, but Graham disputed that and said she was out.

“This convention is going to be a unifying convention”. Now that it’s over, he’s comfortable with Trump as the nominee.

“I don’t see that there’s going to be any other nominee besides Donald Trump – no organization has contacted me with any alternative”, said state Sen.

“Trump promotes hate, he promotes racist attacks on people”. He thinks he can overcome that. He’s got to start. Some of Trump’s supporters would be tremendous choices to serve him and the country in a new administration. “Now he needs to make his case in a succinct and rational way”, Lyster said.

Ron Rowe, a high-ranking special agent with the Secret Service, told a news conference on Tuesday that some of the barriers would be going up that day. “Unfortunately, we’re the only party not afraid to say that”, Martin said. She’s eager to meet national Republican leaders – though many senators and governors, including Rubio, are skipping Cleveland – and grassroots activists from other states and participate in health care policy discussions, among other events. Will he be a voice for party unity? “They were trying to find some little chink in our armor and they went away disappointed”, Rankin said.

Think more the clamor that resulted from LeBron’s “The Decision” in 2010, rather than the giddiness unleashed by his return in July 2014 and the successful quest for his latest ring.

The state party’s internet home page acknowledges that not everyone was behind Trump to begin with.

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Why? To nominate Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential candidate.

The balloons won't drop until Thursday at the Republican National Convention but on Friday work continued to make sure everything would be ready for the big event