The outcome is not final but shows the herculean climb the anti-Trump faction faces in stopping his nomination.
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The hesitant crowd remains concerned that not enough is known about how Trump would govern because he doesn’t have a record of serving in public office, while the strong backers champion the idea that he is not just another establishment candidate, Westrate said.
In 1924, fights broke out among the delegates at the Democratic convention in New York City’s Madison Square Garden even before any vote was cast or the platform was agreed upon. “It is a God-given right to why we have the Bill of Rights”.
“There hasn’t been a whole lot of conciliation going on”, Unruh said of the disagreement between the two sides.
Culp believes Trump is bound by promises to appoint conservative judges, and she likes Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate.
“Anti-Trump people get crushed at Rules Committee”.
Graham Hunt, a former state lawmaker and past chairman of Cruz’s Washington state campaign who serves on the Rules Committee, said he’s staying neutral on the plan and hasn’t decided how he’ll vote on it, but worries about discounting the votes of millions of people who participated in Republican primary elections.
One of Trump’s most famous surrogates doesn’t seem particularly interested in helping unite the party either. Byler said he hopes Cuccinelli will help bring the party together in Cleveland.
He noted that Trump drew an enthusiastic, overflow crowd in a visit this month to the northern Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville, and he said Trump has cross-over appeal that can augment the Republican vote.
Backed by Texas Sen. That panel’s initial votes are expected to demonstrate how firmly Trump and GOP Chairman Reince Priebus control the convention, which meets in full next week.
Any efforts by the anti-Trump groups were dealt a severe blow Thursday in the rules committee when they lost on the ability to amend certain rules that would have allowed another nominee to emerge. Some delegates want to unseat him and nominate another candidate.
“Donald Trump pointed at me and said, ‘You’ve been very critical of me, ‘ ” Flake said. “If we’re really representative of the grass roots, and we’re really representative conservatism, we listen to those voices”. His appearance comes as party leaders refuse to soften the GOP’s formal opposition to gay marriage.
The bureaucratic challenge was just one way the anti-Trump faction seeks to influence the convention proceedings as delegates gather in Cleveland.
No one expects Unruh’s proposal to win a majority on the 112-member convention rules committee, which is heavy with top party officials.
Police officials have said thousands of officers from Cleveland and other agencies will provide downtown security for the convention, which begins Monday. Instead, they vote for delegates who are responsible for picking the nominees.
His efforts ran counter to the message by Republican leaders who, during a week of pre-convention meetings here, called for party unity and the need to coalesce behind Trump, who won a majority of convention delegates in primaries and caucuses.
Though there are other potential moves for the anti-Trump candidates that are even longer shots than the rules committee plan, the vote against Unruh’s amendment effectively ended the “Never Trump” movement and sealed Trump’s fate to be nominated here next week.
Proceedings got off to an inauspicious start: a four-hour delay that was initially blamed on a faulty printer.
Waverly Woods, a Tea Party activist from Virginia Beach who backed Cruz in the primary, is now on board for Trump in Cleveland as a delegate from the 2nd Congressional District.
Most of the changes proposed by the insurgency, led by former Virginia Atty.
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But the bloc flexed some muscles in its push to encourage states to adopt closed primaries, in which only Republicans are allowed to vote.
