People hold campaign signs against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in front of a mid-town Manhattan hotel in NY.
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A state senator withdrew from the delegation because of her opposition to the brash NY businessman. Bernie Sanders’ devoted followers.
Republican delegates from the Philadelphia area rallied Sunday morning before boarding a bus and heading to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
“This convention is going to be more about Donald Trump than the Republican Party”.
He will have broad support among the state’s delegation.
Trump’s no-holds-barred brand of politics – from mocking his rivals to branding illegal immigrants from Mexico as “rapists” – is keeping away many prominent Republicans, including the Bush clan, as well as major corporations such as Apple, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
But some NY delegates concede they are hoping Trump can tone down some of his more divisive remarks and appeal more to a broader electorate.
Priebus also said “there is no religious test on the table”, despite Trump’s statement in December calling for a temporary ban of foreign Muslims from entering the US until elected leaders could figure out “what is going on”.
But all of them are now committed to the corresponding goals of electing Trump and denying the White House to Hillary Clinton. Neither will Sen. Rob Portman, although he does support Trump. Marco Rubio, can point to active campaigns as their reason for not going.
But the Republican establishment ended up helping the Trump campaign beat back efforts to unbind the delegates Trump won in primaries and caucuses.
“He does really well on the teleprompters”, he said. The drop became even more pronounced after the 1980 conventions.
Every four years, the questions come: Are political conventions necessary?
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Trump arrives with 1,543 delegates, according to the Associated Press count. He doesn’t foresee any sort of battles on the convention floor some have predicted.
“I consider myself an American, ” she said. “I think he’s the one candidate who can immediately go to Washington and shake things up and I think that’s what we need”, he said.
Police, meanwhile, are bracing for days of non-stop protest outside Quicken Loans Arena, where the convention will take place. He’s in a tough battle for re-election with former Gov. Ted Strickland, whose campaign frequently calls on Portman to disavow Trump’s latest contentious comments and take back his endorsement.
“I’m very proud of the movement that was started and that I was part of”, said Jared Rice, 37, a New Rochelle city councilman. He and his wife, Jasmine, are Sanders delegates.
On the flip side is party regular Kendal Unruh, a convention delegate whose distain for Trump is so intense that she is tried to block his nomination.
Even if given the chance to dump Trump in favor of someone else, some Missouri delegates said they wouldn’t do so. Massey is an associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at Binghamton University.
“We represent an occasion for those running for president to speak to the nation’s most critical issues at a critical hour in this country”, Brooks told CNN.
NY officials are touting their role in the national debate, such as the fight over income inequality.
“Build the wall. But it’s unrealistic to say you’re going to deport 14 million people”, said Suarez, who noted that mass deportations would break apart families and hurt the children of people living in the country illegally but who themselves were born in the United States. “We’d want to be low-key”, he said.
New Jersey’s 51 delegates will be seated just off of the center, to the speaker’s right.
“It’s good exposure for the firm”, Pascrell said.
Mississippi Republicans also expressed relief that the party has avoided a contested convention, which became a non-issue when Trump won the IN primary IN May and when Cruz ended his bid.
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Trump’s choice of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate was overshadowed by a terror attack in France and attempted coup in Turkey. “No matter which of our candidates you supported during the primaries, one thing is absolutely clear: America can not afford a Hillary Clinton presidency”, an opening plea states.
