Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention who don’t want to vote for Donald Trump are considering last-minute efforts to avoid casting a ballot for the presumptive nominee.
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Prior to the nominating roll call, there were rumblings that some anti-Trump delegates were working to secure Cruz a nomination.
Mr Trump will be officially endorsed as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate at the convention in Cleveland later today.
Clinton pounced on the tumult, saying the Republican gathering had so far been “surreal”, comparing it to the classic fantasy film “Wizard of Oz”.
Ms Trump’s prime time speech to the Republican National Convention was watched by 35 million people, but its aftermath has been dominated by claims she borrowed whole sections nearly word-for-word from some portions of a 2008 speech by Ms Obama. Three women were arrested on Tuesday after climbing a flagpole near the convention site and hanging an anti-Trump banner.
On Monday, conservatives demanded a final shot at rewriting party rules but were blocked. Others expressed anger at the Republican National Committee, which they believed had squashed their movement in an undemocratic fashion.
CLEVELAND Similarities between the speech delivered by Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, and remarks by first lady Michelle Obama in 2008 stole the spotlight at the Republican convention on Tuesday, a day Trump’s campaign had hoped to devote to the US economy.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor, laid out an aggressive case against Clinton, asking the crowd to weigh in on her leadership on the Islamic State group, China, and an al-Qaida-linked group in Nigeria.
Trump: “That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son”.
Rather than rely on advisers and campaign surrogates, Trump has made almost all the major campaign decisions himself, and has used Twitter to communicate directly with the public.
But the RNC and Trump campaign whipped the vote during a brief delay in proceedings and enough delegates pulled out that the effort failed – sparking a roar of boos and chants of “roll call vote” from angry delegates who stood on their chairs and shouted their displeasure.
‘There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech, ‘ Paul Manafort told CNN.
Alaska also saw its Ted Cruz votes from its caucus go to Trump, and it halted the roll call briefly as it challenged the move.
A few basics: Tiffany is the 22-year-old daughter and only child of Marla Maples and Donald Trump, who were married for six years in the ’90s.
“19 Trump”, the convention secretary said. She spoke of her husband’s “simple goodness” and his loyalty and love of family – while noting the “drama” that comes with Trump in politics.
Fallon also took a swipe at GOP Speaker Paul Ryan’s recent selfie with 150 House of Representatives interns – where only a handful were from a minority.
But he also noted that President Barack Obama has been accused of lifting passages from a speech from former MA governor Deval Patrick and “nobody remembers”.
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The Trump family remained largely quiet about the incident on Tuesday, though by Wednesday morning Donald Trump had begun to tweet his disapproval of how the media had covered the story.
