“He is who he is – and, you know, a little on the brash side”. Short said Manafort told him that Trump did not believe that was the case in Colorado.
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“We will be at the center of every discussion, every conversation, every strategy that you can imagine”, said Gerow, a Republican strategist who attended his first convention as a volunteer for Reagan’s campaign in 1976.
An internal GOP battle of emails erupted last weekend, with RNC Arizona committeeman Bruce Ash, who chairs the party rules committee, accusing Republican leaders of “a breach of our trust” by trying to improperly sideline Yue’s proposal. “They don’t like what they see, and I don’t blame them”.
Others feel that democracy is being undermined through both major parties’ unpledged super delegates that have awarded Hillary Clinton numerous delegate victories without winning the popular vote in the state. “He was the man”, said one voter.
“With Trump, it’s what he says. Absolutely”, Massachusetts committeeman Ron Kaufman said.
Clinton’s rival, Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, spoke to a boisterous crowd of mostly young people in Baltimore where he railed against big banks and highlighted his differences with Clinton on everything from the minimum wage to free trade agreements.
“I’m about 300 delegates ahead of Lyin’ Ted”, arguing that Cruz is attempting to claim the Republican nomination through a “rigged, crooked system that’s designed so that the bosses can pick whoever they want”.
Delegates from Pennsylvania can expect campaigns to target them. The rules in Cleveland will be whatever the delegates vote to approve.
Because of Cruzs success in packing delegate slates at the state level, a majority of the convention delegates with Rubio on board the hope would be getting the nomination on the second ballot with Rubio as the vice president of a Cruz-Rubio ticket.
Lawrence Borland, a school board president in Westmoreland County, is running for Republican delegate in the same congressional district as Keller, the Pennsylvania 12th.
Afterward, party leaders from Louisiana huddled in the hallway, weighing the Trump surrogates’ remarks.
LePage also told conservative radio host Howie Carr that the Cruz team was working to remove the governor himself from Maine’s delegation to the national convention, according to a report in the Lewiston Sun-Journal. “It is nearly embarrassing”, Clinton said.
The nephew of former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said the Trump campaign understands it is a “first-deal ballot” for the real estate mogul. He’s always been a very impressive businessperson. “So it doesn’t really bother me because I know what the truth is”, Priebus said. Cruz received 25 percent and Kasich 10.
It would also be a bad idea to offer delegates a federal job in exchange for a vote, but “there are ways of saying things that maybe don’t cross the line”, he said. Three more Arizonans are guaranteed seats due to their positions with the state GOP.
One reason for all that piano playing is the unconventional campaign being run by Republican front-runner Donald Trump. There also is the potential for protests of Trump in Cleveland. “Equal pay? We shouldn’t be talking about it in 2016. This isn’t going to be like Mitt Romney lost”, she told reporters Friday morning. The campaign chief noted that Donald Trump knows he has to moderate his personality, and the negatives are set to change as his image is going to be transformed. It helped Trump that the meeting began a day after he thumped his competition in the NY primary. Ted Cruz by floating a list of delegates that he’d vetted. He is planning to focus more on substance, starting with a foreign policy address Wednesday in Washington. But Donald Trump has made it clear that he would change the platform to include more exceptions.
“I can’t stand by and watch as Cruz and the Republican Establishment forcibly overrule the votes of Mainers who chose Trump and Kasich”, he said.
“It’s much easier than what I have to do – up here I have to rant and rave and keep you people going, or else you’re going to fall asleep on me”, Trump said.
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Politics professor Terry Madonna of Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania said Sanders is “obstinate” about staying in the race, perhaps to earn a speaking spot at the Democratic convention in July.
