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Never-Trump delegates launch last-ditch bid to disrupt convention
Fox News ^ | July 18, 2016 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 07/18/2016 12:24:40 PM PDT by Innovative

Anti-Trump Republicans launched a last-ditch bid on Monday to deny the New York businessman the party’s nomination by trying to force a state-by-state vote at the Cleveland convention on the rules that bind delegates to back Donald Trump.

The effort stands little chance of succeeding, but could pose a major disruption to the proceedings just as party officials were trying to smooth over divisions. The Trump camp is said to be "livid" at the revived push.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; antitrump; antitrumpdelegates; convention; cruz; cruzunhinged; delegates; delegatesunbound; losers; nevertrump; radicalcruzlims; sorecruzers; trump
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To: longtermmemmory

I think somebody else asked that question. :-)


21 posted on 07/18/2016 12:39:18 PM PDT by mancini
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To: Innovative

Reporter tweet says RNC trying to head off a vote.


22 posted on 07/18/2016 12:40:11 PM PDT by mancini
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To: Nifster

“Why isn’t Ted Cruz putting a stop to this nonsense?”

Because he condones it, promotes it, or both.

At this point it is quite TEDious.


23 posted on 07/18/2016 12:40:28 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are at that point, where we stand with Leonidas, or slither with Ephialtes.)
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To: Phil
I will NOT be a member of a political party that does not value my vote. I have been a Republican since 1980, and I will walk away without a backward glance.

These people who want to unbind delegates are spitting in the eyes of the millions of voters who marched to the poll and made their choice.

I did not vote for Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or anyone other than Trump, but if they had beaten him fair and square, I would have supported them.

24 posted on 07/18/2016 12:40:39 PM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: Innovative

The grapes, they are so very sour.


25 posted on 07/18/2016 12:41:48 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))
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To: grania

This convention is the death knell for the Bush globalists and their puppet Cruz, and they know it.


26 posted on 07/18/2016 12:42:45 PM PDT by datura
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To: mancini

It was addressed in the rules committee last week and the proposed rule changes were overwhelmingly defeated. That was supposed to have been the end of it.


27 posted on 07/18/2016 12:43:00 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

It’s the media:
(WashPo reporter)
“daveweigel ;@daveweigel · Jul 14
daveweigel Retweeted Michael Tracey

We craved a contested convention like the characters in Lou Reed songs crave heroin.”


28 posted on 07/18/2016 12:43:36 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Enlightened1

These Hillary Clinton supporters are doing everything they can to sabotage the 2016 election, and go against the Will of the people. Do they not understand Trump has more votes than any Republican candidate ever?

#############

“Ted” (not his real name) is a globalist stalking horse; a tool.

The globalists are happy with Hillary. They created the stalking horse for a more long ranged purpose, but they will burn him for this election to get the last remaining globalist elected. It was supposed to be Jeb and Hillary, and oily Felito could have slithered under a rock and kept playing at being The One Capitalized Conservative for years.

But his masters have sent “Ted” (not his real name) on a kamikaze mission.


29 posted on 07/18/2016 12:43:52 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are at that point, where we stand with Leonidas, or slither with Ephialtes.)
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To: datura

This convention is the death knell for the Bush globalists and their puppet Cruz, and they know it.


Cruz should go back to Canada where he belongs.

Bush should go live in Mexico where he belongs.


30 posted on 07/18/2016 12:44:42 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Psalm 144

If this goes forward why? the losers have cruz speaking.

This could simply be the bill kristol wing of the “you have to vote for OUR choice but we don’t have to vote for your choice” of the effete “conservative” establishment.


31 posted on 07/18/2016 12:45:40 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Innovative

Kendall Unruh is about to be hit with a bucket of water.
32 posted on 07/18/2016 12:45:56 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Innovative

Yes, I know, thanks. It’s annoying that they have another go at disruption.


33 posted on 07/18/2016 12:46:25 PM PDT by mancini
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To: samtheman

they gathered neough signatures to call roll call vote?

what the #### does that mean and does it matter? anybody?


34 posted on 07/18/2016 12:46:42 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Innovative

Here we go...


35 posted on 07/18/2016 12:47:13 PM PDT by mancini
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To: samtheman

.. and take his stupid dancing brother with him.


36 posted on 07/18/2016 12:48:35 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: longtermmemmory

If this goes forward why? the losers have cruz speaking.

This could simply be the bill kristol wing of the “you have to vote for OUR choice but we don’t have to vote for your choice” of the effete “conservative” establishment.


These are delegates from states by and large won by Cruz and Rubio.


37 posted on 07/18/2016 12:49:07 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Innovative

Colorado at large delegates... You don’t say?


38 posted on 07/18/2016 12:49:50 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

“The grapes, they are so very sour.”

That fable was about a fox who jumped several times to try and reach a bunch of grapes.
Finally he gave up and said to himself, “They’re probably sour anyway” and walked away.

All Cruz & Friends are doing is screwing a pooch ... in slo-mo, over-and-over. They lost. They refuse to accept it.

If they go to Clinton from here and screw us, the GOP is dead along with everything we hold dear: the country, the rule of law—this great modern experiment in whether men and women are capable of governing themselves.
I really hate these people.


39 posted on 07/18/2016 12:50:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Innovative
Seen on Twitter: Washington Examiner ‏@dcexaminer 1m1 minute ago JUST IN: Donald Trump's delegates fire back at #NeverTrump: "We are the grassroots." http://washex.am/29PoMSm
40 posted on 07/18/2016 12:52:38 PM PDT by Genoa
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