Meanwhile, it appears the last ditch effort to stop-Trump and unbind delegates was quashed in Rules Committee meetings late Thursday night.
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Jeb Bush is carrying his crusade against Donald Trump to the doorstep of the Republican convention, saying that he is not the future of the Republican Party even as it prepares to nominate him.
“This shows they were concerned enough about the efforts, that they would take the draconian step to silence the delegates and ensure that Donald Trump was the nominee”, he said.
The process for them to do so was to gain to the support of one quarter of the rules committee, but they fell far short of doing so.
“#NeverTrump is never more”, Trump wrote in a boastful tweet Friday.
“I’m not completely sold on Trump, but I do support my party”, Ward said.
Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse the bombastic NY developer and his campaign to “Make America Great Again”, announced Thursday that he would be a speaker at the Republican National Convention.
The RNC and Trump whip teams erupted into applause behind a sectioned-off portion of the cavernous hall when the committee adjourned, according to NBC News.
“Even people who weren’t supporting Trump who were on that committee said no, you can’t do that”, he said. “I will not turn my back on 14.1 million people that voted for Donald Trump”, said Rhode Island delegate Eileen Grossman. The sole hope is for a vote permitting a minority report to be debated on the convention floor. On Thursday evening, it failed to get a majority vote on the 112-member Rules Committee.
So, unlike the last two Republican conventions, Alabama picked the eventual victor of the nomination. She called Ryan extremely bright and said the speaker brings a lot of common sense and strong Midwestern values to the party. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s selection as the vice presidential nominee and Republicans’ hatred of Hillary Clinton will bring most Republican voters to the polls to cast their ballots for Trump-Pence.
Missouri Republican Party leaders say Trump will receive votes from at least 37 of the state’s 52 delegates, the amount allotted to him as a result of winning the statewide vote and five of the eight congressional districts in the March 15 primary.
If a delegate chooses to vote for someone else, it would be up to each state’s attorney general to decide if they’ll pursue charges against that delegate.
One final option remains: Stay away.
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Trump has said he wants “winners” from the sports world to speak at the convention, and Tebow certainly would have fit the bill. Gay rights activists who sat on the party platform committee have also discussed introducing a resolution that would soften the GOP’s official opposition to same-sex marriage. “Period. End of sentence”.
