The convention kicks off Monday and will feature speeches from Trump’s daughter Ivanka, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
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If some kind of wave forms against Donald Trump’s nomination at next week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, expect Alabama’s delegation to act as a breakwall. Unruh said Friday that she is unlikely to seek the signatures for her own minority report, since all of her ideas failed.
Lonegan insisted that party leaders used “heavy-handed, late-night, backroom, behind-the-scenes politics” in order to get their desired results. “They were never there”.
Trump’s team is rallying delegates to remain true to the outcome of their state primaries, caucuses and conventions, which gave him enough pledged delegates to become the presumed nominee.
Correll accused the RNC of undermining efforts to challenge the rules, saying “the RNC, in collusion with the Trump campaign, faked a printer jam” in order to combat efforts to unbind delegates, referring to a delay at a Thursday Rules Committee proceeding that the chairman of the committee originally attributed to a technical malfunction. But she said she and her allies, citing a belief that they already have a right to vote their conscience, will oppose Trump’s nomination in the gathering’s roll call next week.
The roster of speakers still includes Peter Thiel, professional golfer Natalie Gulbis, Trump’s wife Melania Trump, UFC president Dana White, former NY mayor Rudolph Giuliani, actress Kimberlin Brown, actor Antonio Sabato Jr., real estate mogul Thomas J. Barrack Jr. and Pam Bondi, the Florida attorney general who was recently grilled by CNN’s Anderson Cooper following the Orlando nightclub massacre. Ted Cruz. “There’s no shock here, this was expected”.
“I felt like I would represent our congressional district and the state of Texas well”, he said.
For those that are still undecided between Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, both delegates stress how important it is to get out and vote and pick someone based on their values.
“The future of our country will be impacted greatly by who is chosen as our Republican presidential nominee – and our vice presidential nominee, as well”, Anderson said, speaking earlier in the week before Trump announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. The movement focused on changing party rules so that delegates could “unbind” themselves and support a candidate of their choosing.
The proposal was defeated by voice vote and no exact numbers were given.
In a gesture to conservatives, the rules panel voted to create a commission that by 2018 could propose changes to the GOP’s presidential nominating process, which came under intense fire this year. “In 2012, Trump won a bidding auction for a signed Tebow helmet and jersey … but paid $12,000 for the items with a check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation”.
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On the other side, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus was personally involved in negotiations, which were mostly conducted through emissaries, according to his spokesman.
