“I did run as a Cruz delegate”.
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Since it became clear last spring that Trump was the likely nominee, conservative delegates around the country plotted ways to use the party’s rules to derail him at the convention. He said party leaders wanted to “make sure that Donald Trump is the nominee, regardless of what the states said, regardless of what the delegates say”.
Maine’s delegation to the Republican National Convention is a varied group that features a lobsterman, a nurse and a financial consultant who largely supported Cruz.
The presiding officer of the Republican national convention awarded all of Alaska’s delegates to the convention to Donald Trump, even though Trump won just 11 delegates during the state GOP’s presidential preference poll. Babcock says a Clinton presidency would spell “doom and gloom” for Alaska.
In an interview with The Stranger, Minor said he can’t support Trump because of the way he insulted Ted Cruz and other candidates during the race.
“He’s here because he really cares about America, and that is so awesome”, she said. “Never say never, but I feel like if there was something out there I would have seen it by now”.
“I know that was different than Tampa, and I hope that you all appreciated that”, Priebus said.
“It is my honor to be able to throw Donald Trump over the top in the delegate count tonight with 89 delegates”, Donald Jr. said, surrounded by three of Trump’s other children – Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany.
One of them includes Eric Brakey, who at the 2012 Republican National Convention took part in ME delegates’ failed protest against an RNC decision unseating ME supporters of Libertarian candidate Ron Paul. Wilson called her classy and intelligent and said she spoke from her heart.
“I haven’t seen anything and I’ve been pretty involved”, said Fulcher, a former Idaho gubernatorial candidate. “We are so Republican that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance, it’s ‘to the Republicans for which it stands'”. “I don’t think it was innocent decision-making behind this”. I think Jackie Kennedy a lot of people really liked.
Babcock said he was struck by Melania Trump’s description of her parents, her upbringing and becoming an American citizen.
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Two paragraphs of the speech were identical, in part, to a speech given by then-prospective First Lady Michelle Obama to the Democratic Party national convention in 2008; here’s a link to CNN’s side-by-side video of the Obama and Trump speeches, and the Detroit News has a comparison here of the passages.
