Why Dump Trump effort faces likely defeat at GOP convention

Gov. Walker will likely be one of the few notable elected Republicans to speak at a convention where Trump will likely be nominated to head the Republican ticket in 2016.

“I’m sure Governor Huckabee would be honored to speak at the convention”, Gidley said.

Donald Trump’s vision of filling the Republican Convention with sports heroes is going up in smoke as yet another decline piles up.

Growing fear that Trump can not win this fall provoked one conservative columnist to describe him as a “doomed and fraudulent” candidate. Many working-class Democrats share his populist views on trade and foreign policy – but they will never support his crude bigotry and xenophobia.

The July 1-5 poll included responses gathered mostly over the holiday weekend, before the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended on Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton over her use of private email servers and what it called her “extremely careless” handling of classified information while she was US secretary of state. “We’re going to do the best that we can with the resources and training and equipment we’ve been given”, he said, adding that it’s up to delegates if they feel they need to carry a weapon for self-protection. He promised it would be fun – but not too fun – tasteful, serious and on message.

Political analyst and Civil Beat columnist Neal Milner said the lack of debate about Trump among Hawaii Republicans is symptomatic of the local party’s weakness.

“There’s a lot of sameness in conventions”, Trump said.

“You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?” .

Nathan Paikai, an evangelical minister, is the chairman of the Trump campaign in Hawaii. “So the fact that you’ve got Republican CEOs endorsing Hillary is remarkable”. But another factor is beyond the campaign’s control: its inability to persuade party leaders and celebrities to be seen there. And if that’s not scary enough, it’s clear Ohio’s “open carry” law will be in force in whatever area is eventually made available to the various protesters (it might have been enforced even inside the convention site had the Secret Service not stomped on that possibility). The same can not be said for the US government.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger were among those Trump mentioned. Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka also said he won’t be there, even though he supports Trump. “But they’ll be nervous as hell”.

It’s the city where Kasich’s role in the upcoming Republican National Convention has been limited because he’s not voiced support for presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a rising star who helped to write the GOP platform at the 2012 convention, “will be in her district working for her constituents and not attending the convention”, said a spokesman. Hellreich is still marveling over the voting sites, which she said were mobbed with people standing in long lines in the rain in places like Enchanted Lake in Kailua, waiting to vote. We’re looking at potentially the first race in modern electoral history where one side has a competent, well-funded presidential campaign moving voters to the polls, and the other one has Donald Trump trying to do it all with free media and Trump-branded merchandise that doubles as advertising for his business. He said some of his passengers are happy when they see his Trump bumper stickers but others get upset. “It’s one thing to say I want guys like Dana White as opposed to asking Dana White”.

The campaign also had discussed the idea of having fireworks inside the arena, but that proved unworkable.

By necessity as much as preference, Trump’s team is crafting a far different lineup.

But for someone who is not known for hewing very closely or willingly to a script, the challenges of writing one are vast. But in enabling even the possibility of a novice becoming the most powerful person in the world, I let down my party and my country.