Quicken Loans Arena is decorated to welcome the Republican National Convention on July 11, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Almost 5,000 delegates and alternates are gathering in Cleveland, which hit by stormy weather Monday morning. They include former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, and the party’s two most recent presidential nominees, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Levy Restaurants started the farm three years ago, when the convention center was built.
Several hundred Donald Trump supporters – a few of them openly carrying guns as allowed under OH law – gathered Monday for the first major pro-Trump rally of the four-day Republican National Convention. The convention then rolled into a mix of patriotism, music and routine business before the anti-Trump outburst.
Rob PortmanRob PortmanStrickland praises Kasich for not endorsing Trump Senate Dem campaign arm hits vulnerable senators amid GOP convention Dems needle Republicans for skipping Trump convention MORE (R-Ohio), heaped praise on Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other Republicans for “putting country over party” and not attending this week’s convention. “It is going to be very exciting”.
Another Bloomberg reporter tweeted that Manafort said violence at past Trump rallies improved the NY businessman’s standing in the polls.
The lineup of speakers is aimed at showing off the man behind the mogul, his advisers say.
Left-leaning activist groups pushing for “economic justice” and an “America First Unity March” sponsored by Citizens for Trump will hit the streets of Cleveland. The GOP’s schedule includes actor Scott Baio, golfer Natalie Gulbis and UFC president Dana White, and six of Trump’s 16 former primary rivals: Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Ben Carson and Chris Christie. Many GOP leaders, party elders and rising stars have steered clear of Cleveland, wary of being linked to the nominee. Some will be up-front about wanting to keep their distance from Trump; others will deliver dog-ate-my-homework excuses to be elsewhere.
Manafort dismissed the so-called “Never Trump” effort as a band of “rogue, recalcitrant” delegates. Questions of a so-called contested convention haunted the process until early May, after Ohio Gov.
“Of course, we’ve ramped that up a little as far as our technique and our tactics to handle them”. They’re part of the past. We don’t have to show we can govern, we have proven that we are America’s governing party. “We all feel personally about the candidate we have supported. but if we are going to be successful in November, Republicans have to be united”.
Eric Minor, a delegate from Gig Harbor, has been a ringleader in the national “dump Trump” movement.
Officers on bicycles and IN state troopers on convention security duty stood off to the side while a black speaker complained about police mistreatment.
The Minnesota delegation announced it was on board with the plan. Antonio Sabato Jr., who previously endorsed Trump, appeared in the early 1990s on “General Hospital” and more recently on “The Bold and the attractive”. Delegates could also symbolically walk off the floor during the nomination roll call, though per the rules approved on Thursday that would not affect vote totals.
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“The war is over, Donald Trump will be the nominee”, said Bruce Ash, an Arizona delegate who sits on the rules committee. Wait, did Manafort start to say “bail out” Trump’s campaign?
