“Not just what he was able to do in getting more votes than any Republican in the history of our party, but do it with 16 people running”. Each day. For four days. “The enthusiasm for a third of the Republican party for Trump is off the charts, but for the rest … they’re holding their nose”.
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The 2016 Republican National Convention is expected to be different from the conventions of the past, but Bell County representatives heading to Cleveland, Ohio, are excited for what lies ahead.
California hasn’t made an electoral decision in favor of a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, when the state rallied for President George H.W. Bush over Michael Dukakis.
Ian Silverii, executive director of ProgressNow Colorado, a group that works to get Democrats elected, said Republicans have learned nothing from their losses in recent elections, especially against people of color and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Republican Donald Trump seized on the shooting deaths in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to bolster his case the United States is leaderless and he is the better candidate in the November 8 USA presidential election to restore law and order than his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Dean Heller and U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei.
“But the fight must go on”.
The goal in California is to develop young talent that’s also racially and ethnically diverse.
“They’re going to enjoy it”, Boston said.
“The white population is below 40 percent (in California) and the largest population is Latino”.
“As a party leader, I can say “woe is me” or I can lead the party and focus on where we can win elections”. Kim is the first Korean American elected in Orange County to an Assembly seat, and Chang is running for a state Senate seat occupied by term-limited Bob Huff that spans portions of Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. The record remains 103 ballots cast at the 1924 Democratic Convention to nominate a forgettable compromise ticket that went on to lose to Republican Calvin Coolidge.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is launching a major voter mobilization drive during the Republican National Convention. And I can’t support Romney and Haley, because they will be standard bearers for a party that still harbors so many social conservative bigots and war-making interventionists.
If I am right, this will be bad news for the aspirations of the Libertarian Party candidates, former Republican governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld. Instead, he said Trump’s position on immigration appealed to him. And UFC President Dana White is also on this list.
Trump’s crushing victory in March’s GOP state primary makes it easier for Florida Republicans to embrace him, despite his harsh treatment of Bush and Rubio on the campaign trail.
How you feel about this decidedly unorthodox lineup of speakers nearly certainly depends on how you feel about Trump.
On the national level, the ideological division among Republicans was clear in the candidacies of Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush, said Vanderbilt University political science professor John Geer.
Espling said the biggest concern she’s heard from her constituents is their fear of physical violence from possible protests over the nomination of Trump.
He said some 3,000 federal personnel will be deployed to help protect attendees and maintain order at the conventions.
“We are a nation of laws”, he said. “We are content staying in Sandusky”.
“If I don’t vote for Trump, then I am telling people at the state (GOP) convention who voted for me, and the people in Nebraska who voted for Trump, that their votes don’t count because I know better than they do”, said Aimee Melton, a member of the Omaha City Council and a member of the Nebraska delegation. “They all willingly signed that document”, he said. To make sure all those conventiongoers are safe and secure, Cleveland police are asking the city’s homeless population to keep an eye out for threats.
Tensions are high as the presumed nomination of controversial GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is expected to draw passionate and potentially volatile exhibitions of support and protest, particularly in the wake of police-involved shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the killing of five police officers and wounding of seven others by a black man in Dallas.
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That thing isn’t voting GOP.
