Posted on 07/16/2016 12:31:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
In the end, Never Trump never stood a chance.
Despite plenty of positive media coverage and an active social media and email campaign, the effort to wrest the nomination from presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in the 11th hour fizzled in a Cleveland conference room thanks to an alliance between the ultimate outsider candidate and insider party operatives.
The Trump campaign -- worried about efforts to unbind delegates -- tied itself to the Republican National Committee and their operations prepared to work together, sources involved told CNN.
Wednesday night, on the eve of the crucial Rules Committee meeting, Trump and RNC staff gathered friendly delegates on the sixth floor of the downtown Westin, the Trump campaign's home base here. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus personally addressed the room, and delegates were introduced to staff whips for each side and to delegates that would be offering guidance on the whole range of issues before the committee.
Trump's campaign created a texting system so that Rules Committee delegates could be alerted in real time to preferred positions on various amendments.
Running things for Trump was Bill McGinley, a veteran political attorney from Jones Day. On the RNC side, it was chief of staff Katie Walsh and chief operating officer Sean Cairncross.
Delegates were told to look for Maine's Alex Willette, Massachusetts's Vincent DeVito and California's Harmeet Dhillon on the Trump side of things and Georgia's Randy Evans, New Hampshire's Steve Duprey, Tennessee's John Ryder, also the general counsel for the RNC, and Texas' Steve Munisteri for the RNC perspective.
The preparation paid off. On vote after vote in the 112-member meeting Thursday, RNC and Trump supporters were largely in lockstep.
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Nice take.....Manafort is key, to be sure.
These were minions sent out by Cruz to try to cause chaos,
while Cruz hid in the shadows.
Cruz’s 15 minutes of fame is just about up.
Even his poll numbers in Texas are dropping.
Shame on Cruz for not stopping this nonsense by rejecting these
efforts with a public statement to his bots.
With you 100%. Lyin’ ted is a born loser. He was lucky for a while, few under the radar... but when it mattered most Trump exposed him for the rino/rat cry baby he is.
So bummed he is going, let alone SPEAKING at the convention ...but at the end of the day...that is as meaningless as he is.
Liberals think open primaries recruit needed Democrats and Independents into the Republican primaries, and I guess they do!
Re: Priebus -- it was noticable when he was clearly on the train. Good decision on his part.
Absolutely give credit to Manafort. Best delegate wrangler in the biz.
So where’s Billy Kristol?
(evil laugh)....and her numbers started collapsing AFTER Boobamba flacked her on Air Force On and let her use the presidential dais.
The Royal Idiot is so enamored of himself, he actually thinks people care about his endorsements.
The RNC opposes closed early primaries because they generally favor the more conservatives candidates.
Cooch, like most conservatives, prefer them.
Here was a case where the ‘never Trumpers’ stupid ‘unbinding’ goal prevented Trump delegates from joining in reformers’ demands by forcing them to ally with the RNC.
We’ll see.
Cruz could have put a stop to this weeks ago, but instead he stood by and let the division fester.
>>Cruz could have put a stop to this weeks ago, but instead he stood by and let the division fester.
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IMO, he’s just following his Uniparty Masters’ orders.
I am so happy with our Republican ticket. Many prayers are up for their success in November.
See post 22 by tennmountainman
I submit that it is of great importance that the little attention whore/church school teacher Kendal Unruh (the little upstart from Colorado) have her credentials REVOKED and be barred entry to the convention.
Even now, she is persisting in her division, subversion and undermining of our nominee, and her Facebook pages are magnets to all the little #nevertrumpers and their associated precious snowflakes, they need to be banned as well.
The whole thing was an invention of the media who found a couple of Cruz crybabies and ran with the story
1000+ agreed.
But will Rence Priebus have the inner strength of resolve to actually do it? My guess is “No” because they don’t see them as the threats they actually are. They see them as part of the party they have to unite.
Cruz has been valuable in the past, I hope he will in the future as well.
He has to give up his dream of being President, though.
He is not a natural born citizen.
She needs to get a real name. Kendal Unruh? Kendull unnngh.
Ted needs to disown his father and Glenn Beck and make a fresh start.
the revolt only really existed in the imagination of the MSM in the first place . . . and a few hyterics on internet message forums. there was zero chance an actual “revolt” was going to take place.
"In turn, a few in the Republican Party responded by trying to out-polarize the president, making us seem anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker and anti-common-sense."Is Bush so grossly disappointed about the millions of voters who flatly rejected his candidacy that he believes "sober discourse" among individual American citizens, millions among them highly educated, freedom-loving persons who, when asked, are willing to die for this nation's principles and liberties, is impossible and that they are so stupid that they fell for a con man's "nativist" (Bush's term) rhetoric in favor of Bush's own political views, aspirations, and presentations.Further, Bush said, "Instead, they have given rise to the success of a candidate who continues to grotesquely manipulate the deeply felt anger of many Americans. Trumps abrasive, Know Nothing-like nativist rhetoric has blocked out sober discourse about how to tackle Americas big challenges."
Truer words were never spoken.
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