And while they’d like to win rules changes that specifically unbind delegates, they also insist the current rules already let them back any candidate – a reading that RNC general counsel John Ryder derided Wednesday as “idiosyncratic”. Speakers include Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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Thursday morning he was among the biggest stars featured on Donald Trump’s convention lineup.
New England didn’t see much love on the speaker list for the GOP convention next week.
The list is out, and the Republican National Convention is calling it an “all-star” line up.
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams says that they have an existing process that will be “ramped up” for the Republican National Convention regarding open carry.
“We consider ourselves to be a beacon of conservatism”, Joyce said, “and you know as Texas goes, so goes the rest of the country”.
And absent from the preliminary list is Scott Brown, a former United States senator from MA, who has recently become somewhat of a cheerleader for the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump. Shrugging off the high-profile absences, Trump’s team suggested the convention lineup would help highlight Trump’s outsider appeal. “We have great speakers, we have winners, we have people that aren’t only political people”, Trump told Fox News Channel on Tuesday.
“We’re anticipating a victory dance, but it sounds like there’s a lot of agitators and a lot of troublemakers coming to town”, Chris Cox of Bikers for Trump told CNN. I mean to me, it’s very important.
Supporters of the change said transgender people are often harassed, attacked and sexually assaulted when forced to use restroom facilities that don’t align with their gender identity.
Brady has called himself a friend of Trump and was teased as a possible speaker, but he is not scheduled to appear.
You know, Tim Tebow’s out there and I mean, there’s so many, Dana White from the (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is going to be speaking and he’s just, he’s built such an fantastic organization. Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, author of the book, “Lone Survivor”, about a 2005 firefight in Afghanistan, will make an appearance, along with a Wisconsin sheriff, David Clarke, who is a vocal critic of the Black Lives Matter movement. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the rules committee who is close to Texas Senator and former presidential contender Ted Cruz, to complain that the panel was displaying “a trend to rejecting those amendments that tend to disperse power”.
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And from the business community, Phil Ruffin, Tom Barrack and Peter Thiel are on the list. The other finalist, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was not included in the program.
