Tumult over rules, condemnation of Clinton at GOP convention

The bunting is out, the balloons are ready and this city is awash in Republican activists, liberal protesters and reporters from the across the globe as the Republican National Convention kicks off Monday.

The issue surrounding open carry has become a concern in Cleveland after the fatal shootings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in recent days.

Speaking Monday as well will be Trump’s wife, Melania, a rare presence on the campaign trail, and his adult children, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric and the lesser-known Tiffany.

“Donald Trump will be Donald Trump”. Priebus says that’s when Trump will likely speak at the GOP convention, which starts Monday.

Melania Trump, a Slovenian-born former model, will headline the opening night of the 2016 convention in Cleveland, Ohio, which takes place against a backdrop of fear over racial violence and unrest overseas.

A petition is circulating seeking a roll call vote on the rules package at the Republican national convention, signaling perhaps a last call by those wishing to derail Donald Trump from accepting the party’s nomination later this week in Cleveland. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Sen.

The Trump campaign on Tuesday dismissed criticism that Melania Trump directly lifted two passages almost word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, calling the complaints “just absurd”.

This summer’s violence has forced Clinton into a political balancing act, as she tries to highlight the feelings of police discrimination many African-American communities experience while also mourning police officers killed in the line of duty.

House Speaker Paul Ryan continued to take shots, as well: “He’s not my kind of conservative”, he said of Trump at one convention event.

“Certainly the Bush family, we would have liked to have had them”.

Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort said that while Melania doesn’t love the campaign trail, she was eager to deliver this speech.

Numerous party’s past and future stars were glaringly missing from the line-up, underlining the concerns some GOP leaders have with closely aligning themselves with Mr Trump.

Polls show that Trump struggles badly with moderate voters, and his campaign will want to project a more positive image to the general electorate.

“Everyone right now, focus on words and actions that can unite this country, rather than divide us further”, Obama said.

But Trump, insinuating that Obama held some responsibility, earlier blamed a “lack of leadership” for the Baton Rouge shootings and added on Twitter, “We demand law and order”. And Trump himself teased on Fox Monday that he may be in attendance to hear his wife speak.

In Mrs. Trump’s speech in Cleveland, she said: “From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect”. Vice presidential pick Mike Pence, the IN governor who left Indianapolis for Cleveland on Monday, is to speak Wednesday.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is on his way to Cleveland to be confirmed as Donald Trump’s running mate. “A lot of information was given to people”, Trump said. He even said he’d be open to a return performance by the actor Clint Eastwood, whose monologue standing next to an empty chair at the 2012 convention was widely panned. He also tried to blame Hillary Clinton.

OH state law allows for licensed gun owners to wear weapons in public.

The president of the police union on Sunday asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich to suspend the law allowing gun owners to carry firearms in plain sight. The evening is expected to draw attention to the Benghazi attacks and the actions of presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in response in her role as secretary of state at the time.