The GOP’s primetime convention lineup in Cleveland is taking on the look of a parade of older white men, too. The delegate said there may be just “rhetorical tweaks”.
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And when asked about voting for Trump in November, he said, “I have not endorsed him”. Some GOP critics say Trump’s rhetoric is alienating the ever-growing bloc of Hispanic voters. “It is important for us to maintain who we are as a party”, he said Monday night. Trump needs to have a successful convention to win the presidency, he said. “So if I have not endorsed him, then that leaves everything up in the air”.
Corker, who last week withdrew his name from consideration as Trump’s running mate but could potentially end up with a Cabinet post in Trump’s administration, has been offered a speaking role at the convention.
Kasich says he will be attending meetings in Cleveland during the RNC including one with the Secret Service about security during the convention. “I’ve asked him to embrace the platform that the 112 delegates come up with, and I believe that he will”.
Several groups are fine-tuning various convention floor strategies that would allow delegates to vote their conscience on the first round of balloting, rather than being required to vote for the candidate who won their state contest.
Trump and his supporters argue that trade deals have sucked manufacturing jobs out of the United States; Republican-leaning groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce say trade creates different kinds of jobs and leads to lower prices for consumers.
The most contentious fight at the platform committee could be about trade because Trump has taken positions against free trade agreements that are more in line with liberal Democrats, said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has written a book about presidential primaries and nominations. Republicans are about to nominate their candidate. Rice made clear she was not interested in any such offer; she will not even attend the convention. James Comey, the director, said Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais of South Pittsburgh, one of the first sitting members of Congress to publicly endorse Trump, said he will be at the convention to lend his support.
She concedes that she may not have the majority support on the committee needed to make that change in the package of rules that the committee submits to the delegates as a whole.
According to ABC News, companies have started pulling out of deals to sponsor or provide products to this year’s Republican National Convention.
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If Unruh is able to engineer the Rules Committee proceedings the way she wants and bring a minority report to the floor for a vote, it would not only drive the convention’s nominating process into completely uncharted territory, but would also nearly certainly provoke a schism within the party. But there’s a movement afoot to block Trump from winning the nomination, one that includes members of the Texas delegation.
