Cleveland, where the Republican National Convention is to begin Monday, has moved up by a week the activation of a tip line for reporting suspicious activity, Police Chief Calvin Williams said.
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Dumping the party’s presumptive presidential nominee is a longshot.
The Republican Party, as it prepares for its convention next week has checked off item No. 1 on its housekeeping list – drafting a party platform. “This is about the future of the Republican Party”. Some want the rules committee to “unbind, ” or free, the delegates so they can back anyone, undermining his nomination. With no chance of prevailing at that meeting, the dissidents are saving their effort for later this week, when the separate convention rules committee meets to craft a rules package to be considered by the full convention next week.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, appearing on “On The Record with Greta Van Susteren”, said that including the border wall in the party’s proposed platform was a “hat tip” to Trump. “I’m hearing less and less of it, actually”.
“If 10 percent of the delegates don’t show up or don’t get viable replacements or valid replacements, I think his nomination could be in jeopardy”, Brady said.
Others are more definitive.
“There are certainly a number of the platform committee members who are very concerned with including any specific groups in the platform”, said Leslie Rutledge, a delegate from Arkansas and the attorney general of the state, told BuzzFeed News after the vote.
Donald Trump amassed 1,542 delegates, over 900 more than Ted Cruz, the candidate with the second highest delegate count.
On the 16 floor of a century-old skyscraper, a handful of staff for Delegates Unbound sit at laptops, making phone calls and sending emails to the 2,472 GOP delegates. This year, suddenly it’s the voters’ (and the anti-Trump delegates’) failing for not coming to terms with the party’s nominee even though he’s wildly less qualified to be president than McCain or Romney were.
But although some of the “Dump Trump” coalition seems prepared to do battle, they still don’t have an alternative candidate to Donald Trump (though the leader of Delegates Unbound seems to be rather coy about the size of her army).
Eastland says he supports the movement to allow delegates to back anyone, but concedes it will be “very, very difficult” to prevail.
The GOP says her statement is her resignation letter, and she will be replaced.
“I certainly think we’re alienating the LGBT community who might consider voting Republican”, she says.
What gives Waters and his allies hope, though, is that Trump does not command the personal loyalty of a majority of the delegates. He and 46 other delegates will be going to nominate Trump.
House Speaker Paul Ryan emphatically attempted to justify his support for Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling the upcoming presidential election “a binary choice” in which he must overlook some of Trump’s less popular positions. “And we’re going to open our country up and we’re going to be a huge jobs producer again instead of having awful jobs”.
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