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Mike Lee predicts backlash after RNC smothers delegate rebellion
Yahoo News ^ | July 15, 2016 | Jon Ward

Posted on 07/15/2016 9:06:12 AM PDT by conservative98

Lee denounced the result in the room in front of the 112 committee members and a large contingent of reporters, and then spoke exclusively with Yahoo News for 15 minutes afterward in a room down the hall.

In the committee meeting, Lee did not concede that Trump — who is now all but certain to be named the GOP’s nominee next Wednesday night — will in fact be the party’s choice.

“I hope whoever the nominee is going to be this time will in fact win over the delegates,” Lee said. “But rules like this are not going to help that.”

He seemed to hint at the prospect of a demonstration on the floor of the convention, noting that “as we will see in a few days” the “angst” among many anti-Trump delegates or those with serious reservations about Trump “isn’t just going to go away.”

When I asked Lee if there would be an attempted revolt on the floor of the convention, he was evasive, likely because he needs to collect his thoughts and also perhaps keep Trump’s campaign off balance.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; convention; cruz; mikelee; nevertrump; trump
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To: conservative98

Supporting his fellow Mormon Romney


41 posted on 07/15/2016 9:31:16 AM PDT by jersey117 (ut)
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To: Sirius Lee
Amen.

The gall of these people: Vote your conscience, delegates, and screw the will of the voters, workers and contributors who sent you here.

It is amazing how self-delusional people can become when money and power are at stake.

42 posted on 07/15/2016 9:36:04 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: conservative98

He, Cruz and Romney and a few others must’ve gone to the same school for sissies who just refuse to grow up. Pathetic.


43 posted on 07/15/2016 9:38:59 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: MNDude
Who is Mike Lee?

He's the boil on the butt of the "Make America Great Again" movement.

44 posted on 07/15/2016 9:39:08 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: conservative98

I was so fooled by Lee : (


45 posted on 07/15/2016 9:39:43 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: peeps36

Lee is irrelevant and has blown a potentially good career.
Every move he makes will sink him quicker.


46 posted on 07/15/2016 9:40:01 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: headstamp 2

GOPe show class around Democrats... another story when it is the constituents and Trump. Then it is vile wife beater mode.


47 posted on 07/15/2016 9:40:36 AM PDT by lavaroise (s)
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To: conservative98
Mike Lee has gone from being a noted conservative Republican to being a backbench GOPe.
Therefor a member of the small tent, lose with dignity branch of the Republican party.
48 posted on 07/15/2016 9:41:30 AM PDT by Tupelo (GOPe: Small Tent, lose with dignity branch of the Republican party.)
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To: conservative98

It sounds like the Mormons are planning Operation Mountain Meadows Massacre Redux.


49 posted on 07/15/2016 9:42:01 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: conservative98

What is Mike Lee’s problem? I thought he was a principled Constitutional Conservative whose only flaw was staying by his friend Ted Cruz’s side too long. Now it seems that he is firmly committed to The Dark Side.


50 posted on 07/15/2016 9:42:22 AM PDT by grania
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I always thought that Mormonism was more similar to Islam than Christianity.


51 posted on 07/15/2016 9:43:04 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: Kahuna

I think it is simply that he is aware of their attempted stealth manipulations and infiltrations. Their hysterical animosity towards Trump is a thing in his favor, IMO.


52 posted on 07/15/2016 9:43:30 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are at that point, where we stand with Leonidas, or slither with Ephialtes.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Was his relatives at Mountain Meadows?


53 posted on 07/15/2016 9:46:21 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Remember the Court)
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To: conservative98

A few years ago I respected Mormoms, that respect is GONE.


54 posted on 07/15/2016 9:47:05 AM PDT by heights
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To: conservative98
Very sad.

I will put up my record for consistently championing the values of the Founding Fathers against the false paths of the past century, against anyone now living; and Donald Trump is basically, both instinctively & pragmatically, a genuine Conservative. This does not mean that I deny he has in years past, flippantly given lip service to certain inconsistent popular contemporary notions. But his true Conservatism shines through as he revisits the subjects, with full as opposed to flippant notice.

Donald Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism.

Mile Lee needs to get off his 'high horse,' smell the morning coffee and get on board. America is the ultimate issue.

55 posted on 07/15/2016 9:49:27 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Kahuna

“What did Trump do to upset so many Mormons?”

Mormoms love Cheap Labor, besides, the illegals will eventually be their minions on their imaginary planets when they are Gods.


56 posted on 07/15/2016 9:49:58 AM PDT by heights
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To: Kahuna

They have been tepid all along. I wonder if they weren’t expecting Mitt to ride in on a white horse and save the day.


57 posted on 07/15/2016 9:51:33 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: conservative98

PLEASE LET THEIR BE “BACKLASH*

It will help let us know who the RINO’s are.


58 posted on 07/15/2016 9:52:25 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: conservative98
Looks like Lee and Cruz take turns kneeling in front of each other.....he doesn't think it would cause a backlash to tell the People to go to hell?

Since Cruz has previously endorsed Pence, and one must assume Lee would have agreed with that, it will be interesting if either actually has the male genes to strongly urge folks to vote for Trump....

59 posted on 07/15/2016 9:54:35 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Jay Thomas

It appears that Cruz “psy-opped” him along with Beck, Levin and others.


60 posted on 07/15/2016 9:58:04 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker
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