A bombastic developer of high-rise towers and casinos who has gone through cycles of boom-and-bust over and over again throughout his career, a man whose celebrity grew as the host of a reality TV show, suddenly decides past year to run for the Republican nomination for president.
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“My guess is if you’re looking for drama and you’re looking for turmoil, it’s going to be pretty disappointing”, he said.
Oklahoma delegates say that, if elected, they would expect Trump to surround himself with experts to serve in a new administration. The last man standing.
Despite plenty of positive media coverage and an active social media and email campaign, the effort to wrest the nomination from presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in the 11th hour fizzled in a Cleveland conference room thanks to an alliance between the ultimate outsider candidate and insider party operatives.
Cruz, a Texas senator, won 46 percent of the votes cast in Maine’s Republican caucuses in May, compared to Trump’s 33 percent.
However, the decision to add the protective barriers around the Quicken Loans Arena was taken before the attack. And then we get behind him.
But it will be a odd convention indeed.
Hoeven, for his part, said he’s attending from Monday through Wednesday of the convention, before leaving to meet on behalf of a North Dakota unmanned aircraft systems test site.
But while some are excited to be a part of political history, others remain unenthusiastic about a candidate they consider less presidential than the ME caucus victor, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
Odds of that appeared to dim on Thursday, when the Republican rules committee voted down a proposal by anti-Trump forces to free delegates from having to vote for him.
Delegate Alex Triantafilou, chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, said as soon as Kasich suspended his campaign, he started focusing on helping organize his county for Trump.
Donald Trump is holding his ground in the polls, and while he has a tough road ahead, it is entirely possible he could win the election. Unless delegates vote to change the rules, only Cruz and Trump will have their names on the ballot. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, or Sen.
Supporters of former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul – an icon of the libertarian wing of the Republican Party – took control over the Maine State Republican Convention and elected a largely pro-Paul slate of delegates to Tampa.
Some in the OH delegation are on board with Trump, even though Kasich was their first choice.
And the number of impassioned pleas for party unity that are still being issued days before Trump’s nomination make it clear that not all grassroots Republicans have boarded the Trump train. “And I think that we’ll have a convention that will give our nominee the best chance to make the argument that he is better than Hillary Clinton”. “The divisions in the party are not that great”.
He said some 3,000 federal personnel will be deployed to help protect attendees and maintain order at the conventions. While he was able to secure enough delegates to avoid a contested convention, which would have set the stage for a political fight not seen in decades, there’s still plenty of potential drama in store. As for whether he would be willing to support the conscience clause, Hanson said, “I don’t like to deal with hypotheticals”. For the sake of the country, we hope to see that transformation begin and a convention many fear will be a circus end with a statesman, not a ringmaster.
“I never really got involved, but this is so exciting, ” she said. “He sounds like a 12-year-old”.
“It’s just a very odd one, ” Christie said. “Mr. Pence brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding that would blend well with Mr. Trump’s campaign”.
Hartmann made it clear early on in the OH primary contest that he has no use for Trump and hasn’t changed his mind since. “We’re exhausted of being told that this is as good as it gets”. “I’m not wild about him”.
“I want to hear him say he’s going to protect life from birth to tomb”, he said. “And he knows it”.
But he does not want to see Clinton become president.
“That would be a disaster, ” Hartmann said.
Republican candidates trying to balance party loyalty with winning their election were “walking on eggshells”, said Susan MacManus, a University of South Florida political science professor.
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Gerry and I not only live in nearly the same neighborhood, but we work in the press gallery together at the U.S. Capitol, and by chance, we were on the same plane to Cleveland on Saturday as well.
