Nordstrom is enthusiastic about Trump as the Republican nominee for president, but he’s not so enthusiastic about going to the Republican National Convention next week, where delegates like him are supposed to cast a vote to officially name Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.
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Dumping the party’s presumptive presidential nominee is a longshot.
Countering that, the renegade Republicans are setting up a high-tech messaging system to coordinate with organizers on the convention floor and plan to launch ads micro-targeted to the delegates’ social media pages.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said this week that Trump’s wall will actually be a “digital wall” meant to prevent immigration, rather than a physical barrier. Much of the early work revolves around committees that determine each party’s platform and the rules for the four-day event, as well as the guidelines for the 2020 nominating process. “We’re waiting to nail down the final date and time, but I look forward to talking about our military and our veterans, and what we need to do to make sure that we’re serving them, so they can serve us”, he said.
“I do not favour all of (Trump’s) rhetoric, but he’s a smart businessman who will help the nation’s economy”, said El Hanly, a Republican.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now running neck-and-neck in Florida, as well as OH and Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University survey that took stock of three swing states. She says delegates who spoke out against amendments by Hoff and others were not speaking out against the LGBT community.
Members of Delegates Unbound have been working out of its office for 20 days, trying to educate delegates that if they don’t want to vote for Trump, they don’t have to. But if the anti-Trump forces can’t even get 28 votes on the rules committee before the end of the week, it’s over. And, Haugland said Tuesday, the rules for the 2016 convention are not set until the convention Rules Committee acts and delegates ratify them. “This is about the future of the Republican Party”.
And Trump staffers are open to compromising on some rule changes to stave off a conservative revolt on the committee.
Scheffler said Spiker was responsible for an ad that anti-Trump activist Steve Lonegan ran against him in Iowa.
“It’s really hard to back anything Trump does”, Garcia said. That panel’s initial votes are expected to demonstrate how firmly Trump and GOP Chairman Reince Priebus control the convention, which meets in full next week.
The chairman of the GOP’s standing committee on rules said Wednesday he suspects the level of support for the stop-Trump movement is softer than the NY billionaire’s opponents would suggest.
Unruh said she knows the committee will vote her proposal down. Therefore, an attempt to free bound delegates to vote their personal preferences, instead of following what the voters in primaries and caucuses in their states wanted, will fail.
“This is a matter of saving the party”, Unruh said.
“I would think that that’s pretty unlikely”, said John Fogarty, the general counsel for the Illinois Republican Party.
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“He doesn’t understand what we’re going through”.
