Her husband is now the presumptive Republican nominee, meaning she stands a real chance of becoming the next First Lady of the United States.
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Efforts to deny businessman Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination failed Thursday night when the convention’s rules committee rejected an effort to allow delegates to vote for whomever they want to, not the candidate they were pledged to support.
“You want to ignore what is really the grassroots, which is millions and millions and millions of voters who voted for Donald Trump”, said Stephen Munisteri, a delegate and leading GOP figure from Texas. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Marco Rubio of Florida, along with Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur, according to a program released by convention officials early Sunday evening. Kasich has declined to endorse Trump and isn’t speaking at the convention.
Perhaps most noticeably, past Republican presidents and nominees are taking a hard pass. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush will not attend and are not supporting Trump – not surprising since Trump viciously attacked Jeb, their son and brother respectively, during the primary.
There’s been talk of some Trump foes walking out of the convention if they feel they’ve been treated unfairly, a spectacle top Republicans would love to avoid. Rob Portman, locked in a tough re-election race, is planning other events in OH rather than speaking at the four-day festivities.
On this week’s episode of “Powerhouse Politics”, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and Political Director Rick Klein spoke with one “Never Trump” delegate, who is bound to vote for Donald Trump but hopes to vote for another candidate, and the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, who plans to vote for Trump.
Hundreds of invited guests ate food provided by nine local Italian restaurants in Tony Brush Park and sponsored by the Ohio Republican Party. “I think we know Mr. Trump has the majority of the delegates”, said Simpson.
Just two actors will take the stage: Kimberlin Brown from “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” will speak, along with Antonio Sabato Jr., a Calvin Klein underwear model and “General Hospital” star.
Sanford also shared an open letter to Trump supporters written by Nebraska Sen.
The committee, made up of GOP delegates from around the country, blocked a so-called “conscience clause” proposal by Colorado Republican delegate Kendal Unruh, a suburban mom and teacher at an Englewood Christian school.
The tragic killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has led officials in Cleveland, Ohio to review their security plans in advance of this week’s Republican National Convention.
Janet Weir Creighton, a Stark County commissioner in northeast OH, said the voters have spoken.
“It’s not a defeat”, Unruh said in her post. “We respect our voters”. I respect the process.
“If we don’t stick together as a party and stop her, then the only alternative is to get comfortable with the phrase ‘President Hillary Clinton, ‘” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday at the party’s summer meeting. Barack Obama in 2008 carried the county that includes Cincinnati over Sen. Obama also carried OH both times. In fact, during the last presidential elections neither Romney, nor John McCain, won more than 40 percent of the county’s votes, contributing to down the ballot losses in county races.
“Not that political views mean anything in this year, but, because I believe in constitutionally limited government, (Trump’s) candidacy is one I certainly can’t support”, he said in March.
Portman also thinks Trump will draw disaffected Democrats and can carry Ohio.
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Portman knows he’ll be fielding plenty of questions about the nominee-to-be next week regardless of where he is in Cleveland.
