Posted on 07/18/2016 11:58:46 AM PDT by maggief
CLEVELAND--The band of Republican delegates mounting a last-ditch effort to snatch the nomination away from Donald Trump is claiming a last-minute victory in a push to force every delegate to vote on the party's rules on the convention floor.
Delegates Unbound, a group of delegates that support unbinding the delegates to free them from their pledge to vote for Trump, announced Monday afternoon it had secured enough support to force that roll call vote.
The delegates aim to vote down the rules package in its entirety in order to force the party back to the drawing board under pressure to unbind delegates. But the effort will likely only gum up the process, as it remains extremely unlikely the effort can find the 1,237 delegates needed.
“Despite every obstacle thrown in our way, the movement of all the stakeholders involved in this effort have gained a majority of the delegates in 10 states," said Dane Waters, co-founder of Delegates Unbound, in a statement released just before the convention began.
"Now we take this fight to the floor."
The group needed majorities in seven states in order to force that roll call vote, so the effort appears to have eclipsed that mark. But that's still far short from the majority needed.
In most years, rules are confirmed with a perfunctory voice vote that takes little time. But it appears that the group will move to force the time-consuming change of plans to query each delegate.
It's the last breath of the Never Trump movement, which lost a series of efforts during last week's rules committee meetings aimed at unbinding convention delegates and passing other changes to decentralize power from the Republican National Committee and restrict primaries to registered Republicans.
According to documents provided to POLITICO, they have a majority of signatures from 9: Colorado, Washington state, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming, Maine, Iowa, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
The group says former New Hampshire Sen. Gordon Humphrey has submitted the signatures to the convention secretary.
Amen. In the years ahead it might be fitting to see this Cruz creature reduced to a private law practice of ambulance chasing. I am so ashamed I ever supported him.
I flipped over to CSPAN a few times but all I saw was people giving short speeches.
I hope they are prepared to kill his mike if he goes full `tard.
And let each and every roll call voter proclaim his support for (or against) Trump, to be followed by over a thousand standing ovations (or booing).
It could be a highlight of the convention, votes for Trump and cheers going on and on and on.
And we could take names and end careers.
All this is doing is giving a minority of delegates something to get their juices flowing over a trumped up cause. Those leading this effort are using deception to hide their self-serving interests. Their fellow followers do not understand the true agenda of their leaders who would have them eating dog poo if it served their interests. Dog poo would really get their juices flowing. Ha! Ha!
Those who vote for this unbinding will never have the floor or recognition again.
This is giving me stomach pains. What are the chances Trump will not be the nominee?
They have a majority of signatures from 9: Colorado, Washington state, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming, Maine, Iowa, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Cruz and Rubio delegates obviously. They can go ahead and DIAF. I wouldn’t hand them Little Marco’s water bottle if they were on fire.
I am watching all the speakers in CSpan and the parade of speakers supporting Trump is going to make these people look foolish IMO.
I hope you’re right!!
CSpan puts up reporter tweets in its banner. They are talking about the crybabies.
Maybe they should be given pacifiers! Sooooo immature!
Maybe they should be given pacifiers! Sooooo immature!
I just now saw that. It says rules report at 4PM ET. Don’t know if that’s when it will be settled?
Yup, and we have the professional so-called “conservative” but actually open-borders globalist organizations like Red State, National Review, Townhall, etc, plus sore loser NeverTrumpers like Beck and Levin.
Kiss your careers goodbye!
By him i assume you mean Cruz.....he has delegates and standing to be there...
Trump and Manafort beat it back in rules. Sore losers still acting as petulant children
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