Noland says being a delegate isn’t about towing the party line, and that Trump isn’t beholden to politics as usual.
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Even as restaurants and bars fill up with the usual Friday post-work patrons, large tents are being erected outside Quicken Loans Arena, where the convention gets underway Monday.
In Cleveland, federal officials have already restricted road, air and water travel around the city for next week’s Republican National Convention, with security measures affecting passenger and cargo vehicles. “That’s very unfair and the expectation that Donald Trump should be marginalized by a few people in the party who are afraid of losing their influence and power and their access to money, who are very afraid of that”.
Trump has been unable to rally some Republicans who question his temperament as well as his conservative bona fides. Numerous top supporters have been previously identified on financial documents filed by the RNC or have come out prominently as Trump backers in the media. Trump has had trouble attracting leaders from the Republican Party to his convention – past presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain will not be attending.
Kendal Unruh, the Colorado delegate who authored the proposal to “unbind” delegates, said Friday she’ll no longer try forcing a convention floor showdown on that plan.
Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee.
Because he’s a delegate, Hopkins says he’s been deluged with emails advising him on how to vote. “If there’s some organization out there, I haven’t heard about it and that means they’re not very organized”.
The panel approved a rule that would “bound” delegates to candidates decided by state primaries and caucuses.
“I’m listed as a Cruz delegate”, Anderson said. If they can’t in good conscience cast that vote, they’ll have to be prepared to face the people they represent back home and explain to them why they’re going to go against the vote of their home state.
Despite Trump’s brash style and often controversial statements, Lacy believes Texas voters will support him. “I think he’s coming to that”, Hough said.
“It helps put an end to these never-Trump guys”. Trump’s opponents had mounted a small mutiny on the Rules Committee, which convened yesterday to vote on the rules that will govern the convention.
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The chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association is praising the choice of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as a vice presidential running mate despite her reservations about Donald Trump.
