The committee appears unlikely to endorse releasing delegates from their pledges. But Unruh has said she expects to win support from at least 28 of them – which under party rules means her plan would be brought to the full convention next Monday for a vote.
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The Rules Committee may see a push to let delegates vote their conscience and switch away from Trump.
Mr. Trump has worked in other ways to ease the concerns of Republicans since he wrapped up the nomination in early May.
“It’s time our children put down their iPhones and start making iPhones”, Trump will reportedly say in his speech at the convention.
Fox News and Gingrich mutually agreed to suspend his contributor agreement: “Due to the intense media speculation about Gingrich’s potential selection as Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, we felt it best to halt his contributor role on the network to avoid all conflicts of interest that may arise”. It’s all going down.
Finishing almost 40 percentage points higher than his closest rival, Trump did so well among Rhode Island’s GOP voters in the April 26 primary that most of the state’s delegates are die-hard supporters who were elected to represent him. “I’m going to withhold any comment until the presumptive nominee makes his choice”, Ryan said.
Delegate Rachel Hoff of Washington, D.C., a member of the organization who had come out as gay while urging her fellow panel members to adopt more accepting language towards LGBT families, believes that ignoring the issue is a political mistake. “This is about saving the party and winning in the fall”. Barasso says Trump “has not really tried to weigh in on the platform”. Trump carried every Florida county except Miami-Dade.
When gay Republican delegate Rachel Hoff attempted to add language that specifically noted LGBT people as targets of the Islamic state it was shot down by conservative delegates “who said they felt there was no need to single out any one group”.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of the most vulnerable members, said he could not go to Cleveland because “I’ve got to spend as much time in Wisconsin as possible”. At this point, the cake is baked. If that happens, Trump could lose the nomination at the very last minute.
Despite this claim, the GOP convention’s current rules state that the secretary must record the vote in line with the delegation’s binding, regardless of the vote tally announced by the state’s delegation chair.
As his party prepares to formally nominate Donald Trump as its presidential nominee, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus delivered an impassioned appeal for party members to close ranks and work to defeat Hillary Clinton.
“All of y’all have undoubtedly received emails that begin with the sentence, ‘No delegate is bound.’ That’s not true”, the attorney said. “As I said yesterday in my report to the rules committee, the rules of the Republican Party both permit and require the binding of delegates”, John Ryder, general counsel, said. Her proposal reminds delegates they are “unbound” and can vote for whomever they want either at the convention.
“There will be a fight, because the entities that are Never Trump, that are free the delegates, they’re strong”.
“I know her, and she’d make a good president or a good vice president”, Trump said.
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Now, she’s prepared to back Trump.
