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Dozens of GOP delegates launch new push to halt Donald Trump
Washington Post ^ | June 17, 2016 | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 06/17/2016 11:32:23 AM PDT by Innovative

Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee.

The delegates are angered by Trump’s recent comments on gun control, his racial attacks on a federal judge and his sinking poll numbers. They are convinced that Trump is an insufficiently conservative candidate and believe they will find enough like-minded Republicans within the next month to change party rules and allow delegates to vote for whomever they want, regardless of who won their state caucus or primary.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; antitrump; convention; elections; gopconvention; gope; gopeantitrump; gopeforhillary; trump; uniparty
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Have they gone mad or are they all in Hillary's pocket?
1 posted on 06/17/2016 11:32:23 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Changing the rules in such a manner is the ultimate disenfranchisement.


2 posted on 06/17/2016 11:34:10 AM PDT by Ingtar
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“The delegates are angered by Trump’s recent comments...”

Totally contrived.

They’ve been planning this all along.

Assholes.


3 posted on 06/17/2016 11:34:45 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: Innovative

Yes and yes

Hot shot self important political wanna bes


4 posted on 06/17/2016 11:34:47 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Innovative

The left is unable to control themselves when confronted with a conservative.


5 posted on 06/17/2016 11:35:20 AM PDT by stockpirate (Make America Mexico Again - MAMA end sarcasm)
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To: Innovative

GOP finally has a candidate that can win; for the first time in over a DECADE.

And what do these pansies wanna do? Sabotage the race, because their candidate isn’t a sock puppet. This candidate is saying things that the PEOPLE want, and this in no way will benefit ($$$) them.

At least with Hillary in the White House, their “contributions” will continue to amass their personal fortunes, while the USA continues to sink.

Traitors - every last one of them.


6 posted on 06/17/2016 11:35:31 AM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Innovative

There may be a bigger effort to prevent Trump’s nomination than is readily apparent. If would seem suicidal for the GOP to block him, but there is clearly a large number whose livelihoods might be threatened by a Trump presidency.


7 posted on 06/17/2016 11:39:27 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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Well, they are already past, current anf future loosers. Then they claim to be Conservatives, which is delusional. They apparently just eon’t let their hands br pried from the steering eheel of the bus. I suggest they better get used to riding in the back of the bus. They have run outta gas and are not going anywhere on their own for the forseeable future.


8 posted on 06/17/2016 11:39:40 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....)
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It’s the Washington Post, for gosh sakes, they are taking every opportunity to hit Trump.


9 posted on 06/17/2016 11:39:52 AM PDT by CedarDave (Radical Muslims want to kill you. Moderate Muslims want radical Muslims to kill you.)
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“It’s not an effort for a candidate or against a candidate, but it’s an effort to educate people on what their real authority is and have them get the comfort that they’re not alone,” said Eric O’Keefe, a party operative based in Detroit who is a member of the group. “There’s a whole network of like-minded people.”

Yeah.....riiiiggghhhttt....

10 posted on 06/17/2016 11:41:01 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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People will be swinging from lampposts if they try any funny business.


11 posted on 06/17/2016 11:41:49 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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I’ll be glad to see the Republican convention come and go just so I don’t have to read any more of these crack pot articles. Reince Priebus has already stated that Trump is going to be nominated with or without the support of the rest of the party. He has over 1500 delegates and that’s not going to change much.


12 posted on 06/17/2016 11:41:59 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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“It’s the Washington Post, for gosh sakes, they are taking every opportunity to hit Trump.”

Bezos has spent MILLIONS buying influence in the Dem Party.

His companies might have to start making ACTUAL PROFITS to survive in the TRUMP Economy.


13 posted on 06/17/2016 11:42:32 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Innovative

The current owners of the GOP, The Cheap Labor Express, are not going to give up the party they have used to block the citizens from stopping them.
The illegal alien inundation is the gravest threat to the citizens and millions have been spent to make sure we cannot stop it.
Every nominee for the GOP since the last amnesty has been an amnesty candidate.
They will do whatever is necessary to prevent the citizens from electing anyone as President who would enforce the laws and borders.
They do not intend to allow us to retain the rule of law or our country.
This is a decades old plan to reshape the population that both parties have been working on


14 posted on 06/17/2016 11:42:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Innovative
Well, they are already past, current and future loosers [sic].

Then they claim to be Conservatives, which is delusional.

They apparently just won't let their hands be pried from the steering wheel of the bus. I suggest they better get used to riding in the back of the bus.

They have run outta gas and are not going anywhere on their own for the forseeable future.

15 posted on 06/17/2016 11:43:49 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....)
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To: Innovative

The Washington Post can only hope.


16 posted on 06/17/2016 11:44:32 AM PDT by armydawg505
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Dozens of delegates out of a couple thousand. Interesting news article. Maybe next week the WaPo can cover some of the #NeverTrump websites and radio talk show hosts. I'm sure Mark Levin would be glad to lend a hand to the effort.
17 posted on 06/17/2016 11:45:11 AM PDT by Cboldt
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both


18 posted on 06/17/2016 11:45:14 AM PDT by euram
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Hmmm, I smell a rat. See, the story the MSM had already written and had on their hard drives ready to hit the “Print” button on was the contested convention and chaos in Cleveland. Two months ago the story was that Trump was not going to get the delegates, he wasn’t going to hit the number needed.

Damn, that went up in smoke. Suddenly the GOP was calling him the presumptive nominee. The MSM can’t have that. They already have the stores written, after all. This would mean they have to work!! Oh the humanity of it all!!

Make no mistake, the GOP is not pro-Trump. Their play is to let Trump have the nomination, gleefully undermine him and root for Hillary behind the scenes. Then, they can take a crack at it again in 2020 with their chosen establishment hack. But if they blow up the convention, you can forget about having a party. It would be game over forever. Can you say, Whigs?


19 posted on 06/17/2016 11:45:17 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Agitprop.

Idiots read the WashPost because it’s got more electrolytes!


20 posted on 06/17/2016 11:46:51 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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