Cleveland gets ready for Republican National Convention

Republicans descended on Cleveland, a city tense with security concerns and fears that street protests could turn into riots, as Trump on Saturday brought a chaotic and sometimes surreal vice-presidential selection process to its formal conclusion.

“These four days can be a papering over of problems within the GOP or the start of a new relationship between the party and its grassroots”, Winslow said. Republican Party leaders may be called upon to quash a last-minute rebellion by anti-Trump forces, while The Donald himself will be working to try to unify the party behind his controversial candidacy.

A former lawmaker who is Maine’s committeeman serving on the Republican National Committee, Willette blamed “media speculation” for much of the talk about potential chaos within the convention hall among delegates. I know their first loyalty is to the Republican Party and its national committee, which was formed in 1856, just eight years after the DNC was created in 1848, the oldest continuing political party committees in the world.

That resulted in a number of major Republican figures skipping the convention.

Trump will do so in a time of tumult at home and overseas.

Presumptive GOP candidate Donald Trump and his pick for his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, are expected to accept their party’s nomination during the event. But Cleveland’s mayor and police chief say the city is prepared for all sorts of situations.

His hope is that delegates will consider joining the anti-Trump effort once they are officially credentialed and certified.

Trump has thrilled supporters with a willingness to hurl insults at Democrats and Republican alike, tearing them down them with pet nicknames: “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary” among them. While it seems most African Americans in Louisiana seeking election run as Democrats, we believe there are likely many African American voters who relate to the evangelical Christian emphasis in the current GOP platform.

The Republican National Convention has presented its host city Cleveland with a massive security challenge, with more than 50,000 people expected to show up for the event.

For some ME delegates, the chance to stand on the floor of the Republican National Convention as a delegate is not to be missed, even if Trump was not their first choice.

“He doesn’t have natural filters”, New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox said. “Let’s see about the acceptance speech”. That’s probably going to be the most watched acceptance speech ever, because it’s going to be dramatic.

In some ways, the 2012 fight foreshadowed the divisions within the ranks of grassroots Republican voters that have led millions to cast ballots for Trump despite the party establishment’s clear opposition to him during the primaries.

The one thing that all delegates appeared to agree upon – whether they are pro-Trump or Never Trump – is that this will be a convention for the ages. And after Sen. Barbara Boxer said past year that she wouldn’t seek re-election, Republicans couldn’t even get a candidate into to the finals, meaning the state in November will choose between two Democrats to fill her seat.

Robert Bernosky, 52, of San Benito County, who is running for a school board seat, said he favored Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush initially. He is behind in most polls, both in battleground states and nationally, even though Clinton has had a hard few weeks of renewed focus on the controversy over her private email server.

In addition, Haskel Lookstein, a prominent NY rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump to Judaism, faced political backlash within his congregation once it was announced he would be speaking. But he received only about 39 percent of the overall vote, a point that further signifies the fracturing that Trump has to overcome before November.

One announced speaker who later said that he would not speak at the Republican National Convention is former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who dismissed the report that he would be among he speakers selected by Donald Trump as “rumors”.

Regarding security, Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman Mark Munroe, an alternate delegate attending his third convention, said, “It will be interesting to see the difference in security between this convention and others”. “I love Cleveland because I knew them before this catastrophe struck them”. “Most people don’t want to get involved, or they think they can’t do anything”.

To do it, the RNC chairman suggests that for this week in Cleveland, the infamously freewheeling Trump would do well to follow the script.