Trump won the primary election on March 1 with 34.7%, edging out Senator Marco Rubio, who had 31.9%.
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“The Trump people realized the power to change anything is in the rules committee”, said Louis Pope, a national committeeman from Maryland, where all 38 delegates are pledged to support Trump.
According to The Wall Street Journal, 890 delegates are loyal to Trump, 680 are not, and 900 are considered up in the air or “in play”.
Payne said (PDF) that the Virginia law conflicts with Republican Party Rule 16, which allocates delegates based on a proportional vote.
If adopted by the convention’s Rules Committee, the measure essentially would have warded off any attempts by anti-Trump forces to replace him with another candidate. Efforts to coalesce more “Establishment” Republicans and Bush-era “compassionate conservatives” around a qualified outsider died out back in late May. “Frankly that’s the question before us and it’s not an easy one”, she told FOX 17 on Tuesday.
Trump has said his children, sons Eric and Donald Jr., daughter Ivanka and wife Melania, will speak as well. There is no obvious consensus candidate for the delegates to rally behind, and the Republican Party isn’t very good at compromise, in any case.
Donald Trump discusses a plan to help veterans and talks for the first time publicly on recent events in Dallas, Texas., during a speech at Westin Town Center in Virginia Beach, Va., on Monday, July 11, 2016.
“Why do you have primaries?” said Peter Feaman, committee member of the Republican National Convention, reported PBS.
Only one of Rhode Island’s remaining GOP delegates, Woonsocket attorney Thomas Dickinson, has publicly aligned himself with the anti-Trump movement, but as a Kasich delegate his involvement doesn’t change Trump’s majority support.
Some Illinois delegates for Donald Trump are not going to go to the Republican National Convention next week to nominate their candidate.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, appearing on “On The Record with Greta Van Susteren”, said that including the border wall in the party’s proposed platform was a “hat tip” to Trump. I wanted to know when you’re going to start advocating for him.
The speaker has one of the toughest jobs in politics right now: safeguarding the future of the Republican Party while simultaneously uniting the party around its controversial presumptive nominee.
Ryan said the House had just passed the first mental health legislation in a generation and said there was common ground between Republicans and Democrats on the issue.
Not surprisingly, the Trump campaign issued its own statement declaring victory, suggesting Correll was “soundly defeated”.
Trump also agreed with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s assessment that Black Lives Matter is “inherently racist,” as Giuliani put it in a Fox News appearance over the weekend.
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Beyond that, the dissidents say they’ve enrolled parliamentarians and lawyers to help them demand roll call votes, recounts of how delegates are voting, and other steps that might turn the convention into an embarrassing, televised battle.
