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.
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“Delegate and alternate delegate vacancies are routine and occur nationwide every Presidential election cycle”, Illinois Republican Party spokesman Aaron DeGroot said in a statement. The committee appears unlikely to endorse releasing delegates from their pledges. Her proposal reminds delegates they are “unbound” and can vote for whomever they want either at the convention.
It is time for the party to unite behind Trump and give him the opportunity to “make America great again”.
Though the poll was conducted partially before FBI Director James Comey’s staunch criticisms of Clinton’s email practices while serving as secretary of state, Brown pointed out that survey respondents now saw Trump as more honest and trustworthy.
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he can “relate it really very much to myself” when African-Americans say “the system is rigged” against them.
Ditching a nominee who earned the backing of millions of voters – more than any previous Republican candidate – would alienate scores of GOP voters. It’s all going down.
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.
That’s where the Republican National Convention’s Rules Committee will meet Thursday and Friday to debate and approve the guidelines that will govern how GOP delegates nominate their presidential and vice presidential candidates. “This is about saving the party and winning in the fall”.
“I would like someone to assure conservatives that the conservative principles will be adhered to and maintained throughout not just the campaign, but throughout his presidency”, Ryan said Tuesday night in an hour-long town hall with CNN from NY. “So I can’t imagine that people are gonna sit around and not do anything”. At this point, the cake is baked.
It’s not unfair to say the House’s top Republican came kicking and screaming into the Trump fold – and has even disapproved of some of his talk since.
One man and one woman from each delegation, 112 delegates, will decide on any rule changes. “The rules of the Republican Party both permit and require the binding of delegates”.
Dougherty, a grass-roots Republican proponent of 25 years and the Republican state committeewoman for Volusia County, was selected at this year’s Congressional District 7 caucus meeting. “Or Cruz supporters who feel delegates are bound”, he said.
If Hauglad, Unruh and others succeed in allowing delegates to vote their consciences, Feaman predicted Trump would still win the nomination. Now, she said, he will be campaigning in Florida instead of going to Ohio.
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“If we lose and it was a fair process, you don’t walk out with that root of bitterness”, Unruh said. That means, are we going to be faithful to the Constitution or not for a generation? Gingrich started his political career in Georgia.
