Posted on 07/13/2016 6:25:00 PM PDT by jazusamo
CLEVELAND — It is nearing time for the dump-Trump forces to put up or shut up, as they prepare for a final showdown this week on trying to free delegates to the Republican Convention to vote against presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Party leaders, and a growing number of rank-and-file delegates, say the renegades’ effort is going nowhere: Mr. Trump has solidified his support, struck the right balance with the party’s platform and is in little danger of being ousted.
“Now is the time to stand united as Republicans,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told delegates Wednesday as he kicked off the Republican National Committee’s final meeting ahead of the convention. “Now is the time to stop Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump.”
Anti-Trump forces will try to defy Mr. Priebus with a last-ditch effort to unbind delegates won by Mr. Trump in the primaries, freeing them to vote their “conscience” — in other words, for someone other than Mr. Trump.
They have little hope of changing the rules in the Rules Committee this week, but if they can get 28 of the panel’s 112 members to support them, they can write a “minority report” that would go to the full convention floor next week, giving all 2,472 delegates a chance to vote on the proposal.
“The minority report will pass,” Kendal Unruh, a Colorado delegate leading the anti-Trump effort, told The Washington Times.
One key test is whether Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican who backed Sen. Ted Cruz during the primaries, gets behind the movement. The widely respected conservative could sway enough delegates to reach the 28 needed to earn a minority report.
But Bruce Ash, chairman of the Rules Committee, said he suspects Ms. Unruh has only a dozen supporters, or far less than she’ll need.
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This sounds like the last dying gasps of the never Trump crowd.
Go Trump Go!
Get every one of their names and mark it down.
Someone needs to break that biatch’s knees and tear her tongue out!
If their conscience doesn’t drive them to follow the will of the voters, then there is something seriously wrong with their conscience.
The dump-Trump forces are Democrats. Time for them to move on.
Absolutely right, if they don’t follow the will of the voters they don’t have a conscience.
SPOT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have some that post right here.
Because of his shenanigans, it's "game up" for Senator Lee. He's not on our side.
Bump!
I will keep it in my hard drive.
I will keep it in the cloud.
I will keep it in my heart.
Go figure it’s the CO delegates. These are the same people who changed their election rules twice to ensure Trump lost the state. Now they are trying to do the same thing on a national level.
It should be noted that thier actions put a nail in Cruz’s campaign and emboldened support for Trump.
The last hurrah of the Cheap Labor Express....
well, probably not, they will never give up.
They will be backing Hillary when they fail to stop Trump from being the GOP nominee.
If Lee could support Romney and not Trump it is time to assume a couple of things, he isn’t near the conservative he lets on and he is more Republican than conservative.
I was a Cruz support, but at this point will give Trump my support, the alternative is supporting Hillihag and to quote the Republican Party worshipers on FR and elsewhere a vote not for the Republican nominee or no vote is a vote for the Democratic.
Total BS that only 25% on some committee could force a convention floor vote on anything, let alone something of this importance.
Had one threaten to call the feds on me because I suggested it would be dangerous to usurp the will of the people. Truly out of touch.
Sounds like they would get real excited if someone proposed superdelegates. Maybe Corrine Brown could show them the ropes (ooops! is that racisss?)
The voters won’t be happy campers ya think? They traitors may want to move out of the country.
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