His Kentucky colleague in the Senate, however, appears less inclined to show support for Trump. “We respect the democratic process”.
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“It was never real, it was always overblown”, said Ron Kaufman, a delegate from MA.
The Republican National Convention will take place in Cleveland, Ohio next week and Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman with no prior political experience, is expected to be officially nominated.
Simpson said he does not expect that to happen among Texas delegates. Delegates, Lee said, should not necessarily be bound to vote for a particular candidate, regardless of how their state voted in the primary.
“Everybody seems to be unified in supporting the nominee, ” said Jason P. Doré, executive director of the Republican Party of Louisiana. “I think that the Trump campaign has been doing their work on getting the Cruz and Rubio supporters to jump on board”.
In the end, only 21 committee members voted to keep debating the “unbinding” language, before it was defeated by a voice vote.
“This morning I walked to Starbucks, and I can tell you I saw a lot more presence on the streets around us”, she said. “Just as my personal nature, I think it’s a great opportunity to do something that we don’t normally get to do on a day-to-day basis”, Bowman said. He is the fourth major presidential candidate since 1980 to do this.
“I’m not clearly on board, although I’m getting there, ” Perkins said. After last night’s votes in the Rules Committee of the Republican National Convention, the dream of a nominee with a name other than Trump is dead. “If there’s some organization out there, I haven’t heard about it and that means they’re not very organized”.
In addition to being adept at choosing people to help him follow through with his ideas, Anderson said, Trump also has been able to see where changes in his strategy and ways of communication are needed, making him potentially more effective. At the convention, Corker says he will spend his time meeting with ambassadors in his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Janice said she and her husband have been active in the local Republican Party ever since they retired from Robins Air Force Base and moved to Baldwin County several years ago.
Hough has attended five Republican National Conventions and he anticipates the one next week will have a different tenor than the other ones.
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Apart from the three official delegates, there is a fourth delegate designated as a delegate-at-large.
