“Never check your equipment”, was the advice that I learned the hard way about traveling to cover politics.
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“His convention speech will be the most important moment of the campaign and the largest television audience that has ever watched him”, Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak said. “The delegates on the floor are going to be his delegates”. The convention is expected to culminate with Trump becoming the party’s official nominee.
“I think there’s been a lot of excitement and build-up regarding Trump’s candidacy”, said McCormack, who attended the Republican National Convention in 2012.
This time around, opponents of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are trying to overturn the rule requiring delegates to vote for the candidate they were elected to support. “They’re just a very, very small minority that wants to get press”.
Democrat Hillary Clinton led Trump 43-37 among registered voters and 45-41 among likely voters, according to the poll.
Aside from official convention business, the MS and Wisconsin delegations have teamed up to host a pre-convention party Saturday to honor Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
“I though Gov. Pence was a brilliant choice”, McCormack said. “This is my ninth convention”. The Republicans need Donald Trump to be a star in a positive sense, not a negative sense.
Burton – who said he, too, plans on rejecting any attempt to replace Trump as the nominee – acknowledges the “new energy” that new leadership is bringing the party, but he can’t match Ledbetter’s smoldering intensity for Trump.
Among the people Trump has pitched to fill out the schedule for the four-day event are PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, golfer Natalie Gulbis and Dana White, president of Ultimate Fighting Championship. But this year, they returned to the traditional four-day format.
Other members of Maine’s delegation are headed to Cleveland not knowing exactly what to expect. She recently received a call from an organization calling itself “Delegates Unbound”, presumably part of an effort to change rules and allow delegates to support someone other than Trump, who claimed primary victories in Florida and 36 other states.
One Republican lawmaker who will be in Cleveland is state Sen. Rubio said he would be busy campaigning for re-election to his U.S. Senate seat and could not attend.
In addition, congressmen including U.S. Reps.
U.S. Rep. Mario-Diaz Balart, who initially supported Jeb Bush and who represents eastern Collier County, won’t be there either. Ron DeSantis, R-Ponte Vedra, and John Mica, R-Winter Park, will be there. It’s created to showcase the candidate and the candidate’s party. Just last month, he named an OH director, an experienced state operative, Bob Paduchik, who ran Portman’s 2010 campaign.
“The stakes for this convention are greater than just about any that I can think of, and I’m somebody who thinks conventions remain relevant”, said former Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm.
“I think he has the talent to do it. I guess time will tell whether he will do it, or can do it”, Herbert said. Oliver said. “The half-life of the memory of the average voter is about three weeks”.
After taking a few wrong turns in the streets of downtown Cleveland, I found my into the arena, where they were still putting the finishing touches on things for the GOP. The United States should redouble efforts to keep immigrants from entering the country illegally, he said.
In late June, Cleveland officials voted to buy a $50 million “protest insurance” policy for the Republican convention.
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Alternate delegate Scott Peelen of Orlando, whose first convention was the one that nominated Ronald Reagan in 1980, acknowledged the party had some work to do. But he was optimistic – to a point. “We wanted to give the public the facts about what is happening and the laws on the books being quietly passed behind the scenes and the logical conclusion that those laws will put women in jail”, said Andrea Miller, president of the institute. “It’s fractured, broken, busted, and not in a good place – [but] it can be”.
