Pro-Trump and anti-Trump delegates thought that with Lee’s support a conscience clause could win the 28 votes necessary to advance out of the committee and force a convention-wide vote on the issue.
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Instead, the most group leader and Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh could muster was about 21.
Jeb Bush said in a Washington Post op-ed that Donald Trump does not represent the future of the GOP or what it stands for.
Like Smith and Turner, Adams said she sees Republican voters coming around to Trump.
As was Unruh’s rule to unbind delegates, which was rushed to a vote out-of-order before the close of business.
“Not that political views mean anything in this year, but, because I believe in constitutionally limited government, (Trump’s) candidacy is one I certainly can’t support”, he said in March. And yet, the GOP’s “Never Trump” contingent has been surprisingly persistent, looking for every possible avenue to derail the controversial television personality.
The Republican National Convention starts in Cleveland on Monday.
Munroe said he is going to be busy at the convention. “Mr. Trump has re-energized the Republican Party and attracted a lot of Democrats and independents”.
Some of the bound Republican delegates are still convinced that they will get to vote according to their conscience, hoping to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the Republican Party’s nominee.
However, there was some good news for Trump when it emerged that his opponents’ last-ditch efforts to change party nominating rules and thwart his candidacy had failed.
It’s unclear whether Lee will get a response that offers him much comfort.
“As I’m telling people today, never Trump is nevermore”, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said on CNN’s “New Day”.
Holly Gerard, 45, a political consultant from Durant, said delegates are obligated to “honor the will of the people”.
The unsuccessful bid to “unbind” the delegates wasn’t the only contentious bit of business on the Rules Committee’s agenda Thursday. Chris Christie and another member of the rules committee, called Lonegan’s efforts “a complete waste of time” and said he had “zero impact”.
In April, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz but are now free to support whomever they want because Cruz is no longer running.
Cuccinelli wanted a 20 percent bonus, while the RNC came back with an offer of no higher than about 6 percent, he said. No deal was reached, and the slog amendment process went on.
Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer said later on the program that the push had always been overhyped.
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With the deal gone, the committee went through each of the elements of the proposed package one by one. The 112-member committee also took up a proposal to amend the existing rules, which allow the RNC itself to change the rules in between the quadrennial national conventions.
