The 2016 Republican National Convention kicks off Monday in Cleveland, and Carroll County Republican Central Committee member Larry Helminiak is one of the delegates to the convention who will be on hand to cast a vote for Donald Trump as the GOP nominee for president.
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“I absolutely want to make sure we remain unbound, because I am opposed to a Donald Trump nomination”, Minor said.
Police officers gather on Sunday, July 17, 2016, in downtown Cleveland, in preparation for the Republican National Convention that starts Monday.
“There’s something that is – completely in a very positive way – very different about the Trump campaign”, Stoker said. Stoker said he appreciates Trump’s willingness to speak his mind, though he also recognizes that tendency as a potential liability. George H.W. Bush and his sons, George and Jeb, John McCain, John Kasich, Lindsay Graham, Rand Paul. “He’s embarrassing his party, he’s embarrassing his party in OH”.
Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on the city with marches and speeches planned from morning through night Monday. They included Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Sen. The underwhelming lineup will include actor Scott Baio, Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson and actress Kimberlin Brown.
During the conventions, Trump proved a controversial candidate as he made highly-criticised statements about building a wall along the US-Mexico border, calling for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States and even berated his fellow candidates with disparaging remarks.
They tried last week during a meeting of the rules committee, but their effort failed.
He was rebuffed by former three-time statewide GOP candidate Dino Rossi, who said Minor and other “dump Trump” delegates need to get real or risk getting Democrat Hillary Clinton elected.
“I believe that Donald Trump can do some things that regular politicians just can’t do and he’s been able to prove that throughout this entire process”, alternate delegate Jennifer McNeely said.
Should that occur in significant numbers, that could leave television cameras panning across rows of empty seats.
“We won’t sit around and coronate a king”, said Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh, who, like many insurgents, backed Texas senator Mr Cruz.
A separate effort led by former Ted Cruz delegate director Ken Cuccinelli has also been trying to get signatures for minority reports on a series of procedural reforms like rewarding states that close their primaries.
Asked whether Mr. Trump has any support at all among African Americans, Mr. Manafort said: “We understand that the community’s leadership is with the Democratic Party, but Mr. Trump’s message about law and order and jobs will resonate with them a lot”. “It’s some rogue, recalcitrant delegates”.
Trump is expected to formally accept the presidential nomination Thursday.
It comes as three police officers were shot dead and another three were injured in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday. President Barack Obama, responding to the shooting Sunday, noted that the incidents had come just before political conventions that tend to involve “overheated” rhetoric.
“Everyone right now, focus on words and actions that can unite this country, rather than divide us further”, Obama said. Trump’s vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, will speak Wednesday.
Cleveland hoped it would escape any violence of its own.
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There are a total of 5,500 law enforcement officers assigned to the RNC, including 3,000 federal officers, 2,000 non-federal officers working the Cleveland Police Department and about 500 Cleveland police officers. His blunt tone and aggressive approach to immigration and terrorism has done the same with key segments of general election voters: women, blacks and Hispanics, especially.
