“Well, to be perfectly candid with you, I’m just not ready to do that at this point”, Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview when asked if he would support Trump.
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Interestingly, they don’t have a candidate to take his place yet.
Donald Trump went from being one of the Republican candidates to become the presumptive nominee of the Republican party after winning the state primary in IN on March 4, effectively putting Ted Cruz and John Kasich out of the race.
There’s no indication that Trump is really in trouble, though we still have no reliable whip counts of his genuine support on the convention Rules Committee or at the full convention.
In his magazine’s new issue, Kristol writes that “Trump’s ghastly performance over the last couple of weeks has revived the question of an open convention, where delegates would have it in their power, should they choose to exercise it, to nominate any eligible citizen for consideration by the convention and to vote their conscience in a secret ballot”.
The campaign kicked off in earnest Thursday night on a conference call with at least 30 delegates from 15 states, according to multiple participants.
Friday, RNC Chair Reince Priebus appointed Enid Mickelsen, a Utah convention rules delegate, as chair of the all-important convention rules committee.
Some Republicans are anxious about the impact on congressional races and other contests of having Trump as the party’s standard-bearer, suggesting certain potential donors could hold back.
State GOP Chairman Susan Hutchison said Minor is incorrect and that Washington’s delegates are indeed bound by the results of the May 24 primary, in which Trump won 75 percent of the Republican vote.
None directly tied the decision to Trump and many said they would not support the Democratic event either.
“If we had people, where the bullets were going in the opposite direction, right smack between the eyes of this maniac”, Trump said, gesturing between his eyes. Fear of a Clinton presidency remains the lone rationale for many Republicans who otherwise recoil from things Trump has said lately.
And while the RNC commanded in 2013 that delegates must bind themselves to their state’s will, Haugland says that doesn’t mean anything because the rules are dissolved and remade with each new convention.
Lonegan says Cruz is not involved in the effort.
Recruiting like-minded delegates may be hard, because the Republican National Committee has yet to release a list of the thousands of people elected to travel to Cleveland as delegates or alternates.
But any effort to derail Trump could be problematic at the convention, warned Sen. But he said he expects Trump forces to win a convention floor showdown “pretty comfortably”.
“People that I defeated soundly in the primaries will do anything to get a second shot – but there is no mechanism for it to happen”, Trump said in the statement. None. Now people who got none are saying, ‘Maybe we can get something at the convention, ‘ “a fired-up Trump said in Las Vegas”. Ted Cruz, was part of the “delegate revolt”.
From the primary and caucuses, Trump has accrued more than 1,400 delegates – well over the 1,237 required to seal the GOP nomination.
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Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks explained his remarks by saying: “Mr. Trump was stating the fact that with nearly 14 million votes and with 37 state victories, he won the nomination in a landslide and that anybody who he so soundly defeated would have zero path to getting the nomination both from a practical or a legal standpoint”. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Numerous delegates involved supported Cruz but said they are not taking cues from any of Trump’s former rivals.
