Trump outlined 10 ways he would change the department.
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The GOP platform is shaping up to look a lot like the stump speech of the party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump, including a newly combative stance on immigration and enthusiasm for a wall along the Mexican border.
Bankers typically use the quadrennial Republican Party gathering to schmooze clients, host parties and flaunt their connections to the nominee and other senior officials. I think it’s fair to say he’s not getting in line.
News 3 spoke with Georgia Senator Josh McKoon (GA- 29), who will serve as one of the more than 150 Georgia delegates in Cleveland. Joni Ernst – whose profile got a boost in 2014 with an ad about castrating pigs as a metaphor for taking on the Washington establishment – will have a prime-time speaking slot and will address the convention on national security, the Des Moines Register reported this week.
The anti-Trump coalition doesn’t even have an alternate candidate to present to the convention.
Kendal Unruh, a Colorado delegate who is spearheading the effort, claims that the proposal to unbind delegates has gained increasing support.
She’s a high school teacher at a Denver Christian school and a conservative activist.
The GOP’s two living presidents, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, and its two most recent presidential nominees, John McCain and Mitt Romney, all plan to avoid the Cleveland affair as does Ohio’s Republican Gov. John Kasich. Ted Cruz, a primary rival. She, like other anti-Trumpers, insists RNC delegates already have the right to vote against their states’ primary results.
In an interview in their nerve center, a room scattered with empty coffee cups and donut boxes, Dane Waters, the head of the group, told ABC News even if last-ditch attempts to change the rules fail, the roll call vote on the floor of the GOP convention won’t be “some quiet little rodeo”. “It’s a preference poll”.
Trump told an OH crowd earlier this month that Indiana’s legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight will speak at the convention.
While Mr. Spies cited business duties preventing him from taking the week off, Lisa Spies said she’s not attending the convention for the first time because she wasn’t able to find donors or Republican Jewish women willing to attend events in support of Trump. “But it’ll be a very interesting issue to watch in what is normally a very boring, arcane process of the rules committee meeting”, said Calabrese. “And I’m going to make sure I take it to the secretary, and the treasurer, and their dog, just to make sure everything’s covered”.
So what does she think will happen at the Rules Committee hearings?
That’s where Unruh’s ally, Dane Waters, comes in.
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But his opponents only need the support of 28 out of the 112 members on the panel to demand a minority report that would then go the full convention. “We’re fully prepared”, a female manager who goes by the name of London said.
