Pence is also the point man for Trump to reach out to what Norpoth said is the need to win Midwestern battleground states. “We respect our voters”.
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Trump will have stick to a speech on the teleprompter that includes details and a vision for the country with new ideas that isn’t just opposing the status quo of the Obama administration and Clinton’s proposals, the experts said.
Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, will attend and supports Trump, said spokesman Steve Tomaszewski.
“I’d love to listen to him”, she said. “It will be very hard for the convention to ignore the will of the voters”.
Unruh encountered overwhelming opposition from delegates arguing that it would be unthinkable for the party to abandon Trump after he overwhelmingly won GOP primaries and caucuses and garnered more than 13 million votes.
While many in the higher echelons of the party may not be thrilled to have the brash New Yorker as their standard-bearer, they’ve clearly made the calculus that the damage from a fractured, fractious convention would be greater than whatever might happen with Mr Trump leading the way for the next four months.
So, unlike the last two Republican conventions, Alabama picked the eventual victor of the nomination. National and state GOP officials, including Dashiell, aligned with Trump backers against the insurgents.
This time, they expect discontents from other states to rally around Trump, even if he wasn’t their first choice.
Committeeman Alex Willette, says Trump is reaching the constituency. “They lost with the system they put in place, so they can’t complain about that”.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., July 5, 2016.
Tracey Winbush with the Mahoning County Republican Party will attend as a delegate. “What does it say about our democracy that we have this process, and then not support the results because we don’t like the victor?”
The failed talks focused on conservative proposals aimed at appealing to grassroots conservatives that would take power away from Priebus and the Republican National Committee.
“I think it’s somewhat ridiculous”.
According to any number of preference polls, Trump heads into the convention as one of the most unpopular major party nominees ever.
As much as I reject Donald Trump as our party leader, he did not create the political culture of the United States on his own. “This is different. There are people who are not involved in politics at all”. And I sincerely hope he doesn’t represent its future.
But it’s hard to miss a certain lack of enthusiasm among Republican officeholders (especially those up for re-election in November), rank-and-file members, and even longtime strategists and consultants.
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