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To: NIKK

I had it on last night casually watching/listening to it in the background. One actually interesting fact to emerge was that someone, anyone, at the mic, could call for the question, which is to ask for a particular issue being debated on the floor, to be voted on, which stops the debate and puts the rubber to the road.

That is what happened yesterday, with the #NeverTrump faction. Apparently, some of the delegates were somewhere other than the room, for whatever reason, and the body was in order conducting business regarding the delegates voting their conscience, and someone at the mic, asked for the question, and the vote was then called. It left the #NeverTrump group deeply short of their loyalists at that exact moment, and they only garnered 12 votes, 16 shy of the 28 vote minimum, needed to advance the issue. It was played brilliantly, pulling the rug out from under their movement, and all done to the rules of order and procedures established over time. Nothing untoward. Either side of a view can stop debate at anytime and ask for the question, which then becomes a vote on the issue.


584 posted on 07/15/2016 1:07:12 PM PDT by freepersup (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US!)
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To: freepersup

Wasn’t it after lunch it was brought up? If so it was brilliant because people would be either sleeping or late to the meeting or both. I still think Manafort had a hand in it someway.


587 posted on 07/15/2016 1:19:10 PM PDT by STARLIT
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