The glam. The speeches, protests and parties.
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Jonathan Barnett, a Republican national committeeman from Siloam Springs, said Trump’s opponents are heavily outnumbered and have been outmaneuvered.
Republican National Convention attendees speak with a Donald Trump supporter on Sunday, July 17 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Whether this year’s confab meets that benchmark remains to be seen.
In an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast Sunday night, Trump answered a question about the state of the world with an answer that is a likely preview of criticisms that will be directed this week at President Barack Obama and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The top figures in the party gather to showcase their nominees, and the prime-time speeches given by the candidates and other prominent politicians garner some of the largest television audiences of the campaign. That makes the convention a critical opportunity for the party to introduce its candidates to the country.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says Donald Trump has “pivoted” from his proposed ban on Muslims coming into the United States. The site was chosen in mid-2014 after a vote by the RNC’s 168 members.
The convention is a big moment for Cleveland, which is being hailed as a comeback city thanks, in part, to its revitalized downtown. Members of the RNC are automatic delegates. With just one exception, every Republican congressman and senator from the Philadelphia area will be somewhere else.
In 2008, Republican nominee Sen.
Priebus described Trump and Pence as being “somewhere in the middle of each other” and says Trump plans an engagement tour soon to attract Latino voters.
The pre-convention show got off to a rocky start, as the addition of Pence to the ticket dragged out over a few days amid rumblings that Trump was having second thoughts.
At his rallies, Trump often spoke of a “winners’ evening” featuring “some of the great sports people I know”.
When House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke to Wisconsin delegates Monday morning, he made no mention of Trump in his remarks. He’s been vocally opposed to Trump, blasting him in a speech earlier this year as a “fraud” and a “phony”. His vice presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, 57, will speak on Wednesday. Another notable speaker is Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, who may be the first openly gay speaker featured at a national Republican convention.
Republicans have struggled to put together an impressive roster of nonpoliticians.
Over the course of the campaign, Trump’s comments have raised ire among Mexicans and women, in particular.
Clinton has been to OH four times since effectively locking up the Democratic nomination.
On Monday morning, he touted the facilities where the convention will be held. “The delegates on the floor are going to be his delegates, more importantly the message is going be his”.
Those hopes were quashed in a rules committee meeting last week, in which that proposal was resoundingly defeated. Still, social conservatives and others were spending the weekend strategizing. They hope to force procedural votes in long-shot bids to potentially derail Trump’s nomination. Lange, who is affiliated with the right-wing Oath Keepers group, said he had traveled from Lima, Ohio, to report for his radio show. Even so, Trump’s foes could prove noisy and disruptive.
The city granted the activists use of a public park but denied them a permit for the route they desired, said organizer Tom Burke, who said they wanted to get “as close as they possibly can” to the Republican delegates shielded behind the metal fencing. He’s not a natural with a teleprompter and can come across as rather flat when he’s reading from a script. Watch to see if he can find a comfortable middle ground – maintaining the tell-it-like-it-is style that has endeared him to some voters while toning down the excesses that have turned off others.
Trump sought to link the violence to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State, writing: “We are TRYING to fight ISIS, and now our own people are killing our police”. Authorities are preparing for spontaneous gatherings and the potential for violence. Five Dallas police officers were killed by a black gunman that same week.
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Officials have locked down a perimeter around the arena and set up barricades, and security was stepped up further after the truck attack Thursday in Nice, France. Tim Scott, of the SC delegation to the convention. In the arena, thousands of red, white and blue balloons have been pre-positioned on the ceiling.
