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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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Mike Lee is not giving up!
1 posted on 07/15/2016 9:06:13 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Oh for fortitude like this against the Democrats.


2 posted on 07/15/2016 9:07:41 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: conservative98

Seriously, the water in UT needs checking.


3 posted on 07/15/2016 9:08:09 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: conservative98

Backlash? From who?

Levin and Beck?


4 posted on 07/15/2016 9:08:44 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: headstamp 2

Gees, I thought he was one of the good guys.


5 posted on 07/15/2016 9:08:45 AM PDT by Jay Thomas
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To: conservative98

perhaps keep Trump’s campaign off balance.

When have they been off balance?
Can’t say I’ve see that so far.


6 posted on 07/15/2016 9:08:52 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: conservative98

The wagons are circled. The Indians are pouring down from the hills. And Mike Lee, instead of grabbing a rifle and fighting the Indians, chooses to attack the wagon master. The Mormons never would have got to Salt Lake City with Mike Lee in their wagon train.


7 posted on 07/15/2016 9:09:45 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: conservative98; Nachum

What the bloody Hades does he have up his arse? Is Romney’s money and McCain’s blackmail gone that far?

Oh, by the way, maybe if he actually stopped pushing Hillary-favorable democrat oppostion points on the voters in every one of these GROPE “press releases” .... maybe, just maybe, Trump’s points would start going up?


8 posted on 07/15/2016 9:09:56 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: conservative98
"To hell with the voters and to hell with the rules - If I don't get my way I'll poop my diaper some more!"

What a scumbag Lee turned out to be.

9 posted on 07/15/2016 9:10:06 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: conservative98

Get over it,Mike.

You lost.

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10 posted on 07/15/2016 9:10:08 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: conservative98

Will Mike lead a fart-in?


11 posted on 07/15/2016 9:10:25 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

Yeah, like the backlash that will be headed the way of you and your comrades, Mike.


12 posted on 07/15/2016 9:10:36 AM PDT by mancini
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To: Jay Thomas

I know two things. Lee is the junior UT senator, the state that tried to kill off Trump’s chances of winning the primary by ‘party rules’ like Colorado, AND that the elitism of RINO conservatives is okay when they get their way, but all hell breaks loose when they don’t.

I say pull his credentials if he has any at that convention.


13 posted on 07/15/2016 9:12:01 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: conservative98

I noticed he’s selling a book. Why does he have to make money from a book while he’s elected?


14 posted on 07/15/2016 9:12:27 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: conservative98

Lee, his BFF Lyin’ YED! Cruz and the other NeverTrumpers were exposed as typical Bushie Establishmentarians wanting to reject the vote of “We the People”.


15 posted on 07/15/2016 9:12:37 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: Jay Thomas

One of the positive results of the Trump campaign has been how it exposed the fraudulent scumbags in the GOP. I guess Mike Lee wants his fellow cult member Mitt to be the nominee.


16 posted on 07/15/2016 9:13:24 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: conservative98

First it was they had 28 votes to change the rules. NOT.

Now they threaten a backlash.

From whom will this backlash manifest itself?


17 posted on 07/15/2016 9:13:42 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: VanDeKoik
Levin and Beck?

Beck can go screw.

As for Levin, whom I continue to respect even though he is a pariah to most Freepers at this point, he posted on Facebook this morning that he is very enthusiastic about Trump's choice of Pence as VP. I was glad to see that, even though I would have preferred Newt.

18 posted on 07/15/2016 9:13:49 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: conservative98

Shut the Hell up, Mike, you useless jerk.


19 posted on 07/15/2016 9:14:15 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Gaffer

Lee is the junior UT senator, the state that tried to kill off Trump’s chances of winning the primary by ‘party rules’ like Colorado,


How very “authoritarian” of them.


20 posted on 07/15/2016 9:14:22 AM PDT by conservative98
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