Did House speaker Paul Ryan tacitly lend his support to Republican National Convention delegates to dump presumptive nominee Donald Trump at the convention?
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At a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump acknowledged the news about delegates organizing against him and said, “So now I hear after beating them fair and square …” Though he’d obviously be starting the campaign in a giant hole, he’d have one huge thing going for him: He wouldn’t be Donald Trump.
In a pre-taped interview with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd that aired Sunday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that he would not pressure House Republicans to publicly support Trump if doing so would violate their consciences.
“Who were they going to pick? I beat everybody. But I don’t mean beat – I beat the hell out of them”, he said.
The “insurgent group” is trying to deny him delegates at the party’s convention next month, he said before threatening to stop fundraising as a result. The goal is passing a rule at the Republican National Convention slated for July 2 that would free delegates to vote their “conscience”, negating any binding put in place by states’ primaries.
Donald Trump’s boasts in the primary season that he would largely fund his own presidential campaign have slowly given way to more traditional methods of campaign finance as he’s pivoted to the general election. I think they should go about their work.
In March, the New York Times reported that several corporations, including Google, Walmart and Apple were assessing whether they should “scale down” their contributions to this year’s RNC due to Trump’s raging bigotry. Well, now it appears Apple is ready to boycott the Republican party’s GOP convention over Trump. If Trump is blocked from the nomination, his supporters could abandon the party, causing as much damage as letting his nomination proceed.
The presumptive nominee of the Republican Party seems to be having a problem with the Republican Party. ‘They just can’t beat me’.
But there are lingering tensions between Mr Trump and his party’s leaders.
“A former campaign spokesman for Bush, Kristy Campbell, quickly fired back Saturday, calling Trump’s obsession with Bush unhealthy”.
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Eric Minor, a delegate from Washington state, told The Washington Post Friday: ‘I hear a lot of people saying, “Why doesn’t somebody do something about this?” “And you know, I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense”, he said when asked if he supported increased profiling of Muslims in America.
