Oklahoma Republicans seek unity at GOP national convention

Foes said they believed the movement was essentially finished.

With New York taking centerstage in this year’s presidential campaign, state Republican leaders are in line for VIP treatment at their party’s Cleveland convention that opens Monday.

It’s a troubling sign for Trump’s candidacy in a state with 18 electoral votes that is historically crucial for Republican nominees. But Trump kept winning primaries and Kasich didn’t, dashing their hopes.

Trump campaign and Republican National Committee officials say they expect to prevent her from accomplishing that.

“The caucuses in my constituency voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump”.

“He’s going to appoint people who know what they’re doing”. Befitting the candidate’s unrestrained nature, the convention is expected to be a more spontaneous affair this year than past iterations. Also absent will be the party’s two past presidential nominees, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and U.S. Sen. John McCain, as well as the last Republican president, George W. Bush, and his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Your state may be paying for it at the conventions. Upton said earlier this month that he will not endorse Trump. In another, the panel used a voice vote to defeat a plan to bar members of the RNC from being lobbyists – a profession that employs many of them in their home states – though it would have exempted lobbyists for nonprofit organizations. I’m perfectly happy with Donald Trump. “I am Republican, and I will not vote for Hillary Clinton”.

“In the end, I meant what I said when I said any of the people standing on that stage were better than Hillary Clinton”, Walker said, pointing to the latest revelations about her improper use of an unsecured personal server to send and receive classified emails as evidence. But there’s usually a difference between general election and primary voters. They’re first trying to change party rules to allow delegates to cast “a vote of conscience” and abandon Trump.

Deutsch summed up the political calculation this way: “The point is to win the presidency”.

“The Democratic Party has put up a candidate that has had scandal after scandal after scandal, that has no regard for the law”, Sutterfield said.

Many Republicans spent the bulk of this primary season trying to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the GOP’s presidential candidate. “We have parliamentarians who are involved in this effort”.

Yakym said Trump was not his first choice for president.

It’s a scene that played out many times around IL last fall. “What we did yesterday in rules, really was not only the right thing to, it was the moral thing to do, but politically, it was easy to do”.

“I think it’s somewhat ridiculous”. “There were a number of quality candidates who were from outside of the Washington elite that could have made a difference”. “I’m kind of excited that we’re forging a new path here”.

Ivanka Trump, who along with Trump’s other adult children, has been playing an increasingly central role in the campaign, predicted in a recent radio interview the GOP convention would be “a convention unlike any we’ve ever seen”. “We’re shredding that to bits”.

Unruh cited pressure tactics by Trump campaign and GOP officials for peeling away support for her proposal. Such actions could hurt other Republicans on the ballot, Deutsch warned. Bruised by the way party leaders handled debate on a series of proposed rules changes, leaders of anti-Trump groups vowed to find ways to draw at least some political blood Monday.

Trump has been a polarizing figure in the presidential race since his controversial announcement speech.

Trump opponents now are trying to gather enough signatures of rules committee members to force the issue to be taken up by the full convention. “And he’s going to get out of their way, because that’s what he’s done in his business”, Cavin said.

“This may turn out to be a very straightforward (convention), except for some of the presentations”, Cox said on WCNY’s “Capitol Pressroom” radio show.