Dump Trump forces lose first round in Cleveland

“Frankly that’s the question before us and it’s not an easy one”.

Of course this election cycle has landed us in the curious position of having endorsed the candidate who wound up winning the “Republican” nomination – even if our support for him was originally motivated by his contempt for the party establishment.

“I’m sure she’d lose”, said Steve Duprey, a Republican national committeeman from New Hampshire who’s on both rules committees and is opposing the rebellion.

It depends on who you ask.

Republicans say the Trump-RNC vote-counting “whip” team will swell to 150 when the Cleveland convention is in full swing next week. Some two dozen states have similar laws, and Trump opponents hope that delegates will be more willing to declare their independence once they understand they will not face prosecution. “Our organization will not participate in the support of a third party candidate”.

Two days into the preliminary meetings, there’s little sign the anti-Trump movement is taking hold.

CLEVELAND ― Just blocks from the arena where Donald Trump is to become the Republican Party’s nominee for president, the resistance movement trying to stop it from happening is plotting its final stand.

Game over, right? Apparently not … Trump, as well as presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, opposes the USA pact with 11 Pacific Rim nations.

These are the wealthy ideological liberals who wanted Marco Rubio to be president – and Nikki Haley to be vice president.

Will they be able to pull it off? Randy Evans, a member of the RNC from Georgia, says Trump and party loyalist forces appear to have the convention “under control”, with growing numbers of Republicans eager to avoid “the prospect of chaos” if the rules are abruptly changed.

Others have gone further – in one scene Tuesday afternoon, a key RNC member confronted an anti-Trump organizer he said was behind radio ads attacking him.

The “conscience movement” involves several groups of GOP activists and delegates pushing a rule change that would allow delegates to abandon Trump and back someone else, regardless of binding rules in their states or territories.

“Nearly everyone who is not a Trump delegate is opposed to Trump”. Both are expected to feature their party’s running mate on one night and culminate with a blockbuster speech by the party’s presidential nominee.

“People put pressure on them”.

Guess we will find out next week … We do not have a normal candidate. However, many of New Jersey’s delegates are in favor of Trump.

What gives Waters and his allies hope, though, is that Trump does not command the personal loyalty of a majority of the delegates.

“There’s so much energy to do this”, said Dane Waters, co-founder of Delegates Unbound, one group challenging the widely held conventional wisdom that GOP rules require almost all delegates to back a specific candidate, based on state primaries and caucuses. “We’ve seen it happen before”, Ash told ABC News.

“It means nothing for the convention”, the SC official concurred.

A state judge, finding that the requirement violated the delegate’s Constitutional rights, unbound Virginia’s delegates from the Virginia GOP rules, though it’s not clear for how long.

What do you think?

“My concern is about uncertainty”, Yue told reporters after the vote at the Hilton Cleveland Hotel. Is “the will of the people crap?” . Trump’s campaign slogan has been “make America great again”.

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