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Anti-Donald Trump Forces See Convention Coup as Within Reach
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Posted on 07/06/2016 3:02:19 PM PDT by springwater13

Months after Donald Trump appeared to seal the Republican nomination for president, anti-Trump forces still have one last chance to force a vote on the party’s convention floor that would throw open the GOP contest again.

It’s a long shot, but by some counts they are remarkably close to getting past the first hurdle next week in Cleveland.

Mr. Trump’s intraparty foes, led by a group of rogue delegates, are waging an intense behind-the-scenes effort to push the Republican National Convention’s Rules Committee for a vote on freeing delegates to back whom they wish, rather than being bound to Mr. Trump.

The presumptive nominee’s team is fighting back just as vehemently, with an organized campaign of dozens of aides and volunteers. It’s a power struggle that has prompted threats of reprisals and left many Republicans anxious that it could hurt the party’s prospects in November.

The anti-Trump camp needs the backing of 28, or one-quarter, of the 112 Convention Rules Committee members, in order to place the issue before the full convention. A Wall Street Journal survey suggests it could be close.

All involved in counting votes say those numbers fluctuate on a day-to-day basis. If the provision gets the necessary committee votes when the panel meets beginning next Wednesday, it would place the issue before the full convention, where it would need 1,237 votes—half the delegates—to pass.

Though a majority of the convention delegates are bound to support Mr. Trump, Mr. Evans’s count shows just about 890 delegates are personally loyal to the New Yorker. Another 680 oppose Mr. Trump. That leaves 900 delegates who are presumed to be “in play,” he said. The stop-Trump forces would have to take nearly two-thirds of them to block his nomination.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; antitrump; convention; demagogicparty; election2016; gopconvention; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump
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To: rbg81

Isn’t Trump going to Washington tomorrow? Might be interesting day if he is going to Washington.


21 posted on 07/06/2016 3:11:21 PM PDT by magua (baby)
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To: springwater13

Any delegate that does not vote as their state has decided, had better just walk out into lake Erie and see if they can hold their breaths until they get to Canada.


22 posted on 07/06/2016 3:11:56 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: springwater13

More hot air!


23 posted on 07/06/2016 3:12:17 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Donglalinger

Cruz would be a damn fool to take the nomination after a coup at the convention. If he thinks Trump is a loser against Hillary, the smart play is to man up, endorse Trump and not piss off his supporters, and run again in 2020. Cruz would finish in 3rd place after Trump makes a bid as an independent instantly creating the “America First” party. It would completely shatter the GOP into irrelevance.


24 posted on 07/06/2016 3:12:27 PM PDT by springwater13
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To: BigEdLB

Tar and feathering is within reach.


25 posted on 07/06/2016 3:12:59 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: GilGil

The sad part is, the GOPe is willing to use the Mutually Assured Self Destruction to be rid of Trump and give it to Hillary, in order to maintain the status quo. If they get Trump out, who do they nominate? no one with the gravitas to overcome the anger, etc. It would have to be a throw away candidate or someone at the end of their career who is promised a parachute after the failed bid. (not Ryan, he wants to run in the future). So? A “political suicide bomber” could take out the entire convention nomination process.


26 posted on 07/06/2016 3:15:30 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: springwater13

This will be about as effective as the Democrats sit-in on Capitol Hill. Personally, anyone not supporting Trump should be disinvited. Starting with any known Cruz supporters.


27 posted on 07/06/2016 3:15:35 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Like herpes, Lyn' Ted and his supporters can always flare up again.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Haven’t you noticed that no weapon formed against Donald Trump has prospered? Why would that be?

Isaiah 54
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 717). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Every time Donald Trump says, “I love you!” to a crowd, I am reminded when Jesus said:
John 13
34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1047). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.


28 posted on 07/06/2016 3:15:35 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!e)
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To: Donglalinger

He is holding off to use it to get a speaking spot at the convention. He will endorse, and he will speak. Fair trade.


29 posted on 07/06/2016 3:16:34 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: springwater13

Not this crap again!


30 posted on 07/06/2016 3:17:14 PM PDT by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: springwater13

Newspapers making news. Gotta sell papers.


31 posted on 07/06/2016 3:19:01 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

They could nominate Carly Fiorina she has nothing to lose and very little to gain and she did it once already for Cruz.


32 posted on 07/06/2016 3:19:26 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: springwater13

If this even gets close to happening, it would be the end of 160 years of the Republican party. By the next election cycle, it would be replaced. And if the No-Trumpers do succeed, they should nominate Mark Kirk. He could be the poster-child for useless Republicans. That way Paul Ryan could run in 4 years, with the same support level as Gary Johnson.


33 posted on 07/06/2016 3:20:05 PM PDT by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: springwater13

Remember the outcry when News Corp bought the WSJ - everyone thought they were going to ruin it by taking it to “far right”!! Now they are just shilling for the nevertrumpers and by extension the lying criminal and her rapist husband.

No thanks WSJ! Take your paywall and shove off!


34 posted on 07/06/2016 3:21:39 PM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: Donglalinger

I’d like to see Cruz hold a rally of his supporters. Maybe he could fill a high school auditorium.


35 posted on 07/06/2016 3:21:45 PM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: Bernard

That way Paul Ryan could run in 4 years, with the same support level as Gary Johnson.


I would vote Libertarian if they pull it off.


36 posted on 07/06/2016 3:21:54 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Chgogal

Trump winning in a landslide.


37 posted on 07/06/2016 3:22:41 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: springwater13

Looks like I must put up my WARNING again. Maybe I’ll need to start posting this DAILY.


38 posted on 07/06/2016 3:23:16 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Bernard

Medved and Erikson would be so gleeful if they did put Yeb! in as the candidate...


39 posted on 07/06/2016 3:23:16 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: springwater13

Why post this drivel? There is zero chance Trump will not be nominated at the convention.


40 posted on 07/06/2016 3:23:41 PM 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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