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Several GOP delegates working to block Trump's nomination: report
The Hill ^ | June 17, 2016 | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 06/17/2016 1:29:35 PM PDT by Mechanicos

At least 30 delegates are mounting a longshot attempt to deny Donald Trump the GOP presidential nomination on the convention floor, The Washington Post reported Friday.

The delegates hope to change party rules next month to take away delegates who are pledged to the presumptive nominee but who may not actually support him. The attempt comes on the heels of a tough stretch for Trump, who has seen his favorability plummet and any lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton evaporate over his attacks on a Hispanic federal judge, comments this week about banning Muslims and other controversies.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283912-several-gop-delegates-working-to-block-trumps-nomination

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To: Veracious Poet
Not to quibble, but Locke wrote those words more than 200 years ago; however, they're still spot on.

History......you're talking about HISTORY, which obviously is no longer taught at all/or taught in a bloody revised, inaccurate, lie filled way, when taught at all.

Haven't you ever watched those "man on the street" parts of different programs, where people are asked extremely simple queries, which they can't answer correctly at all; not even the "WHO IS BURIED IN GRANT'S TOMB" kind ? Last week, Watters asked sme people who America fought in the Viet Nam War and only one, JUST ONE, person got it right! These idiots knolw NOTHING, yet they vote. :-(

81 posted on 06/17/2016 3:29:14 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: RitaOK

No, Rita...not that many; some ARE for Trump. But this idiocy shall not fly!


82 posted on 06/17/2016 3:31:28 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: deport

They take away by way of the RULES. The National Convention RULES Committee determines the national convention rules.

The States allot delegates according to their rules to get them to National. After that, the national rules kick in accordingly, with the vote of the whole convention.

Priebus won’t like this, I don’t think. Not with Donald winning by the greatest margin in history to attain the Republican nomination, and on Hillary’s heels in national polling.


83 posted on 06/17/2016 3:31:44 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: Angels27
There isn't that much disunity. The article is about delegates, there are thousands of them, and many are #NeverTrumpers. So what. Trump will be nominated. Might as well have the vapors because Amanda Carpenter and Mark Levin are #NeverTrumpists.

As for disunity at the political level, there has always been tension in the GOP. This time the fracture zone is in a different location, that's all. The Romney/Ryan wing, the Bush wing, and the inconsequential McCain wing are asserting their pique. Big deal.

84 posted on 06/17/2016 3:32:20 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Veracious Poet

Great post!


85 posted on 06/17/2016 3:33:52 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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To: Mechanicos

Let them change the rules, let them throw Trump out.

But once they do that they are through as a party forever on the national stage. They become, at best, a regional or local state party.

The Democrats will rule but not for long as they are next to implode. Both of these parties can’t be destroyed fast enough for me. Corrupt to the core, and now Trump has exposed all the Lies and Corruption for all to see.


86 posted on 06/17/2016 3:35:35 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: odawg

They are bound, that is true.

UNTIL THE NATIONAL CONVENTION RULES ARE CHANGED, and they allow them to become unbound.


87 posted on 06/17/2016 3:35:58 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: odawg

They are bound, that is true.

UNTIL THE NATIONAL CONVENTION RULES ARE CHANGED, and they allow them to become unbound.


88 posted on 06/17/2016 3:36:06 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I agree .

Bezos the Amazon leftist has issued a non stop attack on Trump.

Boycott Amazon .


89 posted on 06/17/2016 3:36:52 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: Mechanicos

Replace them


90 posted on 06/17/2016 3:36:59 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Biggirl

Wisconsin is OWNED by the TRIO. Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus.

Wisconsin is the tip of the spear of the entire RINO TRAITOR machine.

Wisconsing Republican National Committee chairman - owned

Wisconsin Speaker of the US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - owned

Wisconsin Governor and state machine - owned


91 posted on 06/17/2016 3:39:37 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: phoneman08

God love you, dear phoneman!


92 posted on 06/17/2016 3:40:37 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: Mechanicos

Who are these 30 delegates? And what are their addresses?


93 posted on 06/17/2016 3:42:54 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: TomGuy

Lord, I pray so. Thanks, TG! I don’t think for a minute it would be Cruz they would install. It would be stinking Paul Ryan.

Cruz is yesterday’s news for the globalists. They have moved on to Ryan. Cruz will not run for prez again. Ryan would kill him off next time, easier than TRUMP.


94 posted on 06/17/2016 3:43:25 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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To: MeanWestTexan; Reno89519
these are Trump delegates who don’t want to vote for Trump.

Bull sh*t.

That is a comment right out of the corrupt insiders play book.

95 posted on 06/17/2016 3:46:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Chgogal

I had the same kind of thing happen to me, with nasty personal email to boot.


96 posted on 06/17/2016 3:47:21 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They are attempting to overthrow the people’s vote. They don’t care if we walk away because they’re just as well off with Hillary. They don’t care if the Republican party folds because it’s just a front anyway.

They will not concede power, period.


97 posted on 06/17/2016 3:48:50 PM PDT by Kenny (e)
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To: nopardons
The legal foundation for the AMERICAN Revolution was fought based on Locke definitive works, specifically the portions I previously quoted...

This is DIRECTLY traceable to James Otis' 1765 assertions that King George and Parliament were wantonly violating the Colonists' Natural Rights, right up to the Continental Congress tapping Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence formerly, with Adam's and Franklin's supervision:

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

And yes, of course the villains use the Sheeple's stupidity against Them/Us, but those of Us educated and awake should be in total agreement regarding CORE issues, i.e. The Rule of Law.

98 posted on 06/17/2016 3:52:34 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (May God Bless America (again)
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To: Veracious Poet

Well stated. God Bless America and its Christian/judo heritage. Muslims never did squat in building this country but they have killed over 4000 Americans on out soil !! OUT!! I say.


99 posted on 06/17/2016 3:53:03 PM PDT by WENDLE (Ban Wahhabi sect Sunnis here not our GUNS!!)
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To: nopardons

In my congressional district 77 to 3 were Cruz supporters.

Cruz wasn’t in the primary all that long outside of the South and Midwest, which is true, but then he went back in and switched allegiances of TRUMP earned delegates.

There were countless stories that TRUMP supporters could not get even nominated to serve as TRUMP’s “earned” delegate at State Conventions.

Those slots of TRUMP earned delegates were filled by Cruz supporters, because they so out numbered TRUMP supporters.

Grant it, TRUMP supporters are delegates, but they are overwhelmed in numbers of Cruz supporters.

Honestly, I think even the bitter Cruz delegates can surely read the crystal ball and see they would sell out our country if they dared upend the peoples vote, so there is that.

Romney & Ryan are at the center of this sabotage effort.


100 posted on 06/17/2016 3:54:20 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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