Less than a week from the Republican Convention in Cleveland and there are signs of trouble within Arizona’s GOP delegation.
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Trump’s critics include Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee for president.
In the weeks before Republicans descended on Cleveland, the band of conservative delegates fighting against Donald Trump promised a scrappy but ardent effort to take the convention by storm.
The presumptive Republican nominee predicts that protests against police violence which followed the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas last week “might be just the beginning for this summer”. To make that argument, he sued the state over a law that requires Virginia’s delegates to be bound to the victor of its primary in a winner-take-all fashion.
Participants in the call had their focus on unbinding all delegates, making it acceptable for them to vote for any candidate they choose. “Delegates are the authority of the Republican Party”. Republicans are largely unhappy with the direction their party is moving, and many fear their party’s chances of winning in the fall are bleak. Some two dozen states have similar laws, and Trump opponents hope that delegates will be more willing to declare their independence once they understand they will not face prosecution.
Ryder’s comments are not binding on a convention rules committee that is scheduled to begin its deliberations Thursday. “I’m hearing less and less of it, actually”.
The federal court ruling has no bearing on RNC rules, however, so the disagreement over whether delegates are in fact bound to a candidate will be hashed out next week on the convention floor.
Evans said Trump can apparently count on at least 1,700 devoted delegates enough to fend off any rule changes. RNC and Trump campaign officials remain convinced that such an up-or-down floor vote would fall Trump’s way, but the global spectacle of a floor fight would be worth its weight in gold.
‘They put all their chips on the table and they lost all of them – if I were them I’d go hide in a closet in Trump Tower, ‘ he said. RNC members said they are not anxious about the dissidents somehow prevailing with just a minority report, which is likely to get voted down well outside of evening, prime-time hours.
Eastland says he supports the movement to allow delegates to back anyone, but concedes it will be “very, very difficult” to prevail.
And Caitlyn Jenner has her bags packed for Cleveland, but so far says she’ll just be attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to talk about the GOP opening up to the transgendered community, not the convention itself.
Correll supported Ted Cruz in the primary, while Donald Trump received the most votes in the state.
“The court has confirmed what we have said all along: Rule 16 is in effect and thus delegates, including Correll, are bound to vote in accordance with the election results”. He asserted the Trump campaign is “morbidly humiliated” by the decision. “It would be harder to not nominate him and deal with those consequences versus all other options”.
Trump used the presentation of his proposals for improving conditions for veterans to also come out in defence of the “men and women in blue”, the cops “who stand each day to protect us”, but who, instead of receiving plenty of thanks, get incessant criticism.
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District 36 Republican delegate David Covey said will not be in the camp of switching votes.
