“The event will formally select Donald J. Trump as the nominee for president for the Republican Party”, the site reads.
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Puzder, a Trump supporter whose company owns the Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. fast-food chains, said he backs free trade and that there’s no disagreement that the USA needs it.
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.
“The court has confirmed what we have said all along: Rule 16 is in effect and thus delegates, including Correll, are bound to vote in accordance with the election results”, Trump Campaign attorney and former FEC Chairman Don McGahn said in a statement.
Finishing almost 40 percentage points higher than his closest rival, Trump did so well among Rhode Island’s GOP voters in the April 26 primary that most of the state’s delegates are die-hard supporters who were elected to represent him. “Delegates are the authority of the Republican Party”.
“We need better negotiated trade agreements that put America first”, said a proposed platform to be considered at next week’s Republican convention.
“They may not retroactively change the rules by which they were elected”, counsel John Ryder said.
Even if they lose on thursday, the anti-Trump forces will have one last chance when the rules go before the full convention for approval next week.
“Why do you have primaries?” said Peter Feaman, committee member of the Republican National Convention, reported PBS.
“I just don’t think we should be talking about dividing at all”.
“That shows bias to me”, Ryan said of the comments, describing them as “out of place” for a top judge. “We have to find people who reflect most of our views and whose views are more reflective of our views than the other candidate”.
Donald Trump won enough delegates to clinch the party nomination but some in the GOP are searching for loopholes and calling for rule changes ahead of the GOP’s grand old party to circumvent the billionaire businessman from getting on the ticket.
But although some of the “Dump Trump” coalition seems prepared to do battle, they still don’t have an alternative candidate to Donald Trump (though the leader of Delegates Unbound seems to be rather coy about the size of her army).
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was asked by Trump to speak at the campaign and accepted the offer, according to Time.
Eastland says he supports the movement to allow delegates to back anyone, but concedes it will be “very, very difficult” to prevail.
But Priebus, who talks to Trump every day, said he encourages Trump to keep his focus on attacking Clinton and boosting his own agenda, rather than continue his squabbles within the GOP. He’s been replaced by an alternate Kasich delegate, Christine Misto, who said she expects to vote for Kasich on the first ballot but is willing to support Trump as the nominee.
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This requires work in the Convention Committee on Rules and Order of Business, or Rules Committee, which meets the week before the convention.
