Republican panel leaves anti-Trump move gasping for breath
The committee voted 87-12 for a rule that requires delegates to vote for the nomination of the candidate they’ve been pledged to.
DeVilbiss said he’s going to Cleveland to ensure voters are represented. Republican officials estimate there are about 1,200 events scheduled around the convention.
Troubled finances: A growing list of corporate behemoths and prominent conservatives pulled out of sponsorships for the event, forcing Republican organizers to ask casino mogul Sheldon Adelson to front them about $6 million to fund the convention. All three will be going to their first national convention and are certain it will mark history.
His job at the convention involves making sure all of the technology and wireless networks work properly.
“A vehicle-borne attack is always something you’re concerned about”, said Jason Porter, vice president for the central region of security provider Pinkerton, which is advising private sector clients on security around the convention.
Numerous people with a message are already in Cleveland.
Unlike the legion of opportunists, partisan hacks and Trump enablers who will flock to Cleveland next week, the GOP dissidents are keeping faith with their party’s best principles and traditions.
“We were getting lots of pressure to pick a side, ” he said. The Hill points out that fellow Republican members of the Senate say that “McConnell is creating space for himself and his members in case Trump’s campaign falls apart”.
Morelli and Villano said they plan to vote for Trump at the convention, as they vowed to do before Pennsylvania’s April primary.
“We are united as one and we are100% behind Trump and we are going to do everything we can to unify together and it’s very exciting”, Seaver says.
“I think this election cycle has been really a referendum on the status quo and the gridlock of Washington”, Hensley said.
Republican nominees John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 addressed the NAACP conventions.
“Nothing Donald Trump could do at the Republican National Convention will change the simple fact that America has never had a candidate less qualified and temperamentally unfit for the presidency than him”, said Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Andy McGuire.
“We have to elect him”.
“There is nothing we leave to chance”, said James Henry, the agency’s special agent in charge in Philadelphia.
Adams said that as she prepares for her trip, she is looking forward to hearing Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan speak to the convention.
“People felt that the Republican Party is the party of inclusion”, Jose Arango, chairman of the Hudson County Republican Party and chairman of the state GOP chairmen’s association said Friday. But she said Friday she now believed she would fall short.
He declined to say whether his plans would be different if someone else were the presumptive nominee. “We all want our families to be prosperous”, she said.
Morelli and Villano qualified their endorsement of Pence by stating they did not know much about him before his name surfaced this month as a likely choice to join Trump on the Republican ticket. In Florida, 57 percent of voters, regardless of how they intend to vote, favored Trump on the issue, compared to 35 percent for Clinton.