[mandaladon]

Getting the wall built into the platform is a big win for the Trump campaign as it seeks normalize the proposals that some party leaders have been loath to embrace..............Trump keeps on moving ahead...

[CMB_polarization]

The Clinton dynasty stopped in its tracks, and the networks she would have perpetuated torn asunder. That alone is a sufficient result of a Trump Presidency.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

The Trump Train rolls on and pouty Jeb was left with an interview on PMSNBC? bwhahahahaha...well adios Jeb! and take your low energy with you!

[SMARTY]

“Trump keeps on moving ahead...”

And ... if he has to drag the GOP, kicking & screaming into the WH, so be it!!

[proust]

Art of the deal.

[conejo99]

And this is the convention where some people think the delegates might vote con tray to the primary results?

[b4me]

platform already had border fence listed at least since 2006. Commentor on FOX yesterday said it just has never had funding approved. Commentor said so it was an easy switch to make it say WALL to satisfy Trump and his base.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The sound and fury about some sort of convention revolt is nonsense and has been for months. If there was serious trouble at the rules committee level, then there would be serious trouble at the platform committee level.

There isn’t.

If the rules committee were to unbind the delegates (which seems highly unlikely, suspect, illegal or all of the above), it would likely end up with Trump getting MORE delegates on the first ballot than LESS.

The GOP needs to come together to win and the only people who don’t understand that are the fringe 5% #NeverTrump people and the same amount of #NeverCruz people.

The other 90% of the party know they have to unite behind Trump to win.

[tennmountainman]

Looks like Trump has crushed Ryan and McConnell, regarding the
GOP platform.

[GBA]

Watching things play out, I'm reminded of when a product or industry has become obsolete and how those whose livelihoods depend upon that product/industry fight their losing fight until they are ultimately left behind.

The GOPe's progressive brand is obsolete and they've been playing their base for years while hoping that no one notices.

In spite of their high opinions of themselves, they are clearly not too big to fail, but they are just big enough to piss off most of America!

Adios, güey. Hola, Señor Trump!

[Boardwalk]

I just put a Trump bumper sticker on my car. I was complimenting a guy with a Trump Make America Great Again bumper sticker as he was getting into his car, so he gave me one. He had quite the supply!

[Trumpinator]

As a republican I never liked the neocon wars of choice and occupation (OK with special forces strikes and supporting pro-American forces with Green Berets and weapons, cash - not direct war), never liked free trade which was never part of the GOP ideology (imported as part of the GOP being an arm of Wall Street), and was never OK with globalism (which means open borders and free flow of peoples and trade goods regardless of origins).

[trebb]

They must be noticing how folks answer their surveys - and like me tell the Party that they’ll get none of my money until they stop playing lip service to conservative principles and actually get full on the Trump wagon and start acting on what they say from time to time.

[DannyTN]

Can you hear me now?

Yes, yes they can!!! Thanks Trump!

[pgyanke]

As they craft this platform, I have a message to the Powers-that-be...

DO NOT GO SOFT ON THE ISSUES OF LIFE (ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS, HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE, AND CLONING).

I, and many others, will be hitting the Democrats HARD on these issues once the platforms are finalized and published. See my profile for previous efforts. Going big this year on the message. There is no reason an 80%+ Christian nation should be embracing the culture of death!

[Stentor]

Trumpified

[Yaelle]

I’d like a line in there that says “We condemn anyone using the word racist to describe the policy of actually having sovereign borders and defining the American economy as not including another country’s outsourcing of their poverty.”

[goldstategop]

It completes the transformation of the GOP from a conservative into a nationalist and populist party.

Trump is our Alex Tsipras.

[rockinqsranch]

Well good! By altering their platform this way we are being told the anti-Trumper’s lose their battle to dump Trump IMO.

They wouldn’t have changed the platform if their was any hope the dump-Trumper’s would succeed.

[bigbob]

Platform is irrelevant. Getting Trump elected so he can do what he says he will do is what is important.

[Albion Wilde]

Make America Great Again

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 9:15 PM yesterday to 2:30 PM EDT today, 7/13/16:
City rips secret planting of Syrian 'refugees' [list of cities] –WND
FBI agents believe 'inside deal' happened in Clinton probe –Wash.Examiner
'God's Not Dead 2' Billboard Nixed at GOP Convention: "Incendiary" –HollywoodRptr
GOP draft platform will include Trump's proposed border wall –FoxNews
GOP platform gets Trump-ified –TheHill
Ernst to deliver GOP convention speech re national security, Monday –CedRapGazette
Reince Priebus Full Interview With Greta Van Susteren Fox News (7/12) (video)
Bikers for Trump to Patrol Cleveland during Convention; ‘Vets Our Backbone’ –Breitbart
Trump Gets It Right on Reforming the VA –IBD
Please keep those donations coming in folks. We need your support to keep FR alive! –Jim Robinson
FedGov Authorizes FB, Twitter, YouTube to Censor “Anti-Islam” Speech –AFLC
Facebook refuses to pull down ‘Donald Trump Sucks’ page (vanity)
Ad Spending Update: Clinton Outspends Trump $57M to $4M –NBC
Clinton’s lead over Trump shrinks dramatically –TheState, SC
Clinton Losing In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Swing State Poll Finds –Quinnipiac
Republicans enabling pollsters to lie, say Clinton leading Trump –Kevin Collins
New Iowa poll is actually better for Trump than just his 2 point lead –Kevin Collins
Trump’s Glide Path –Scott Adams (Dilbert)
Bill Clinton speaking engagement: $1,400 phone bill, $700 dinner for two –LATimes
Obama Travel Cost Taxpayers over $79.5 million –Judicial Watch
ISIS lauds “results” of bloodthirsty Ramadan: claims 5200 victims –ForeignDesk
Bombshell: Obama Never Met with His Defense Intelligence Chief –PatDollard.com
Michael Flynn’s discussions of ISIS (video)
Hillary’s Libya Debacle –FrontPage
9 Steps to Successfully Counter Jihad –Jamie Glazov
Trump: "We're Not Closing Gitmo, We're Going to Fill It Up" –RCP
Central Banks Have Sailed Us Where We Shouldn't Be [NEGATIVE RATES] –TCW
National Debt to Hit 141% of GDP: Outlook Worsens – CBO –IBD
Trump calls on Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign –MSN
Donald Trump Is Right about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg –NYT Ed Board
MARK LEVIN: Let me be the first to declare… –FB
Two-thirds of Americans oppose gov’t forcing transgender bathrooms –LifeSite
AG Lynch refuses to answer Congress' questions over 74 times –Amer.Mirror
Romney Heading ‘National Movement’ against Trump –DailyCaller
Paul Ryan: Trump Not Perfect, but Better than Clinton –NBC
Ryan pans Trump's deportation plan –TheHill
WARNING: DAY OF RAGE #BlackLivesMatter Protests this Friday in 37 Cities [list of locations] –GP