“And under those circumstances, if you are bound by state law, then all the delegate votes of Virginia would have to go to the plurality victor, which was Trump”, Virginia Republican National Committeeman Morton Blackwell told TheDC.
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Ryan, the party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, had advice for Trump as he nears a decision on a running mate.
Angelo, president of the gay group Log Cabin Republicans, in a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters following the unofficial adoption of the 2016 platform for the Republican National Convention, which Angelo called “the most anti-LGBT Platform in the Party’s 162-year history”. Please click the button below to manage your account.
Less debated Tuesday were other elements of the GOP platform that hewed toward Trump’s tough stance on immigration, and his unorthodox views on free trade and foreign policy.
Countering that, the renegade Republicans are setting up a high-tech messaging system to coordinate with organizers on the convention floor and plan to launch ads micro-targeted to the delegates’ social media pages.
“It is not my job as chairman of the convention to tell the delegates how to run their convention”, the speaker said.
“There’s so much energy to do this”, said Dane Waters, co-founder of Delegates Unbound, one group challenging the widely held conventional wisdom that GOP rules require almost all delegates to back a specific candidate, based on state primaries and caucuses.
“The judge was very clear about not speaking to what the Republican Party had to do”.
The RNC knows this and now has seemingly fully embraced the GOP candidate in its newest platform draft.
The Convention Rules Committee is expected to meet on Thursday and Friday.
“Most of my friends don’t agree, but I think he is the best choice”, he said. “I’m hearing less and less of it, actually”. “It hurts the court when she does that”.
Ginsburg has more than earned that right.
But the Republican National Committee’s general counsel argued Tuesday that delegates are obligated to follow elections results and can’t change the rules. When asked who invited him, he only answered: “It was not Trump”.
Ironically, presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s wife Melania would be the only First Lady, should the unlikely candidate win, to have posed nude, during her time as a model.
The former Ukip leader said that he is “interested” to hear what presidential hopeful Donald Trump has to say when he addresses Republicans at the event in Cleveland, which begins on Monday.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the senior member of the Judiciary Committee and longest-serving GOP senator, said: “Those comments were inappropriate”.
Now keep in mind all pledged delegates from Colorado are still attached to Ted Cruz.
But in recent days, Unruh has instead emphasized her confidence in winning 28 votes ― enough for a “minority report” that would require a full vote of the convention. “Now those of us who are in the elected branch of government who get elected to things, I think that it’s perfectly in the realm”.
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The dissidents say they’ve enrolled parliamentarians and lawyers to help demand roll call votes, recounts of how delegates are voting and other steps that might turn the convention into an embarrassing, televised battle. Six in 10 say immigrants who are in the country illegally should be allowed to stay, including large majorities of young Hispanics, African-Americans and Asian-Americans and about half of young whites.
