Ohio official: “nervous as hell” over RNC in Cleveland
One of the reasons convention procedures and rules are under more scrutiny is because of the tumultuous campaign of frontrunner and presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
Steve Duprey, a longtime RNC member from New Hampshire and member of the Rules Committee, said he thinks there are only about a dozen votes on the committee to unbind the delegates.
It’s his first time as a delegate to a national convention, something he never expected to experience. “It might be a little more hard to get around downtown starting on Sunday”, said O’Neil.
“I’m nervous as hell”, former Ohio Democratic state Sen. They have also voted to define marriage as only the union of one man and one woman, and retain language that supports the concept of children “born and raised by a mother and father in the home” as being the best environment. Unlike most past election cycles, where delegate counts and state primary and caucus results created a clear leader with some amount of background as a GOP party member, Trump is a relative newcomer to the party with no government or direct political background, and his controversial stances and statements have created a divide among Republicans.
Donald Trump gets to pick his own apprentices on reality TV-but the rules are different at the Republican National Convention. “I would not feel comfortable at all going against that”.
“I can vote on the rules committee, theoretically, however I wanted to”, he said. The committee is scheduled hold a 90-minute orientation on Wednesday in Cleveland, followed by 10-hour meetings on Thursday and Friday, devoted to reviewing rules proposals.
It means he could be one of those 28 committee members who vote to send the minority report to the floor.
“We still want to win the White House, and we still don’t want Hillary Clinton anywhere near the White House, ” said Borges, who backed Kasich in the primary campaign.
Trump has called for marriage to be a state issue, and declared he is a candidate that will protect LGBT Americans. I don’t think he has the qualities I was looking for in a candidate.
We, too, believe this election is worse than a dumpster fire.
He needs 1,237 delegates; he has about 1,500 going into Cleveland.
Still, it would be possible for Trump to accept vague language about supporting good trade deals without getting into a fight about specific agreements, she said.