But Gina Blanchard-Reed is a delegate to GOP Convention.
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Blanchard-Reed: “Since the founding of the GOP up until 1976, delegates were free to vote their conscience”. Now that I think about it – Trump might be a gangster rapper.
Hodgson said Trump “espouses views that are antithetical to American values of freedom and democracy” and is dividing the country along race and class lines.
There may not be a contested convention, but the RNC may have a floor fight on its hands, even if efforts to change the rules fail, according to a group pressing for delegates to “vote their conscience” during next week’s nationally-televised roll call. Haugland hasn’t said whether he supports Trump, but is a longtime advocate of the theory that party rules do not bind delegates to election results in their states.
The Make America Awesome PAC, a group opposed to Donald Trump, posted a letter to the committee members urging them to vote to unbind convention delegates.
Under existing GOP rules, Trump’s performance in primaries and caucuses earned him 1,543 delegates, which exceeds the 1,237 needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
Donald Trump won fair and square, and he won with an extraordinary number of votes. Her proposal reminds delegates they are “unbound” and can vote for whomever they want either at the convention.
When it comes down to it, many Republicans still prefer Trump as the lesser of evils compared with some possible candidates who might replace him. Ted Cruz of Texas, Trump’s strongest rival during the primaries.
“If 10 percent of the delegates don’t show up or don’t get viable replacements or valid replacements, I think his nomination could be in jeopardy”, Brady said.
The disconnect has laid bare the deep fissure that persists within the Republican Party on LGBT issues more than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages should be legal nationwide. He has said since then that such decisions should be left to the states and declined to take a side. “Now is the time to stop Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump”.
No one expects Unruh’s proposal to win a majority on the 112-member convention rules committee, which is heavy with top party officials.
“He’s going to get 1237 (delegates), and it’s going to fly”.
The Republican Party platform is now fully drafted, with little change on social issues, like gay marriage – but at least one Republican delegate has made emotional impact on the GOP. The “Never Trump” faction of the party – notably Mitt Romney, Bill Kristol, et al., who apparently believe their opinions outweigh that of the electorate – will do everything within their power to undermine the will of the people and nominate someone other than Donald Trump.
Graham Hunt, a former state lawmaker and past chairman of Cruz’s Washington state campaign who serves on the Rules Committee, said he’s staying neutral on the plan and hasn’t decided how he’ll vote on it, but worries about discounting the votes of millions of people who participated in Republican primary elections. The party’s full platform committee is scheduled to soon convene to debate the matter and others.
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When asked about criticism over using veterans as part of a “political ploy”, Brock said the donor thought of the idea himself and that this is no different than Trump bringing up veterans on the trail.
