Chaos On the Convention Floor!

[Howey]

Let's hope this isn't the way a Trump administration will run things

I'm hearing the words "brownshirts", "nazi", "illegal", "cheaters" and worse being uttered on the floor of the RNC. It looks like the riots might be in the convention hall, not outside.

Critics of Donald Trump had attempted to force the vote and submitted the signatures they believed were necessary to do so, but after holding a voice vote on the rules, Rep. Steve Womack declared the rules approved and moved on.

Womack left the stage amid an uproar, only to return to the stage moments later for a second voice vote. He again declared that the 'ayes' had won, again to protests from the crowd.

Forcing a roll call vote requires support from the majorities of seven delegations. Anti-Trump delegates submitted what they said were a majority of signatures from at least 9: Colorado, Washington state, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming, Maine, Iowa, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The also claimed that Alaska had provided signatures as well.

But Womack, after the second voice vote, said on stage that three states had withdrawn from the roll call effort, leaving it short of the support needed.

The vote thwarted and the convention rules deemed approved, the convention moved on to a discussion of the official party platform.

The anti-Trump delegates opposed the rules and hoped to vote them down in the roll call vote. Their ultimate goal is to get a new set of rules that allow delegates to vote against Trump even if they are pledged to him based on the results of their state's primary or caucus rules, though they appear unlikely to have the votes to do either.

Forcing a vote on the rules would have temporarily thrown the convention into a lobbying frenzy, with delegates hoping to deny Trump the nomination work to convince a majority of the convention’s 2,472 delegates to reject the party’s rules and adopt new language that would help them sideline Trump.

Even if they'd likely have lost, the Never Trump delegates wanted a vote to display the lingering anti-Trump sentiment in the party — likely from hundreds of delegates — at a time GOP leaders and the Trump campaign are struggling to project unity.

Critics blasted the procedural moves to block the vote.

"I have never in all my life, certainly in six years in the United States Senate, prior to that as a lifelong Republican, never seen anything like this," said Utah Sen. Mike Lee. "There is no precedent for this in parliamentary procedure. There is no precedent for this in the rules of the Republican National Convention. We are now in uncharted territory. Somebody owes us an explanation. I have never seen the chair abandoned like that. They vacated the stage entirely."

Read more: Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces
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[Howey]

Last-Ditch Rebellion Mounted Against Donald Trump

A delegate revolt that began with the hope of taking the presidential nomination away from Donald Trump is finishing by trying to throw a twig into the spokes.

New Hampshire delegate Gordon Humphrey, who has been working with the Delegates Unbound and Free the Delegates groups, tried to force party leaders on Monday to approve their rules for the convention on a roll-call vote, rather than a voice vote as is normally done.

“Donald Trump is so ignorant of anything that he hasn’t a clue what is going on here in general or in detail,” said Humphrey, a former senator who backed Ohio Gov. John Kasich during the primary season.

Humphrey said his plan would give him and like-minded Republicans one last chance to empower their fellow delegates to get rid of Trump.

“It gives us time to make the case to delegates in recess, one on one and through the news media, that they’re getting screwed, frankly,” Humphrey said. “They’re getting shorn of their manhood and their womanhood. Their right to make their own judgements on any questions are being taking away, and that’s an outrage.”

 

[Howey]

I wanted to see what FOX is saying...apparently Cruz is behind it.

Rocky opening for GOP convention as Cruz forces clash with team Trump | Fox News

 

[Howey]

Drudge, for apparently the first time in his life, is speechless.

DRUDGE REPORT 2016®

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

 

[Howey]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

There's like ten state delegations about to walk out.

Question. When vote time comes around, if these delegates refuse to vote for Trump, will he have enough votes to garner the nomination?

 

[Howey]

Live Coverage of the Republican National Convention

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

There's like ten state delegations about to walk out.

Question. When vote time comes around, if these delegates refuse to vote for Trump, will he have enough votes to garner the nomination?

IDK but they need to top acting like spoiled children, the people spoke. Let it be

 

[konradv]

I don't think it be can denied anymore that the great switch in the South occurred with many conservative Dems becoming Reps. The convention proves it. They're being as unruly as the Dems used to be. In contrast the Dem convention is going to be a love fest.

 

[Intolerant]

When has any of these cock suckers ever care about we the people. I like seeing the rhinos in panic mode.

 

[Howey]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

There's like ten state delegations about to walk out.

Question. When vote time comes around, if these delegates refuse to vote for Trump, will he have enough votes to garner the nomination?

IDK but they need to top acting like spoiled children, the people spoke. Let it be

Why? From what I'm hearing the rules call for a roll call, not a voice vote.

 

[Howey]

lol...it just got worse.

Trump's motorcade was involved in an accident on the way to the convention hall. No word yet if Trump's ego was injured.

 

[Howey]

BREAKING: The Ayes Have It? Not. VA Delegate Ken Cuccinelli TOSSES Credentials, Storms out of RNC (VIDEO) | RedState

 

[2aguy]

Let's hope this isn't the way a Trump administration will run things

I'm hearing the words "brownshirts", "nazi", "illegal", "cheaters" and worse being uttered on the floor of the RNC. It looks like the riots might be in the convention hall, not outside.

Critics of Donald Trump had attempted to force the vote and submitted the signatures they believed were necessary to do so, but after holding a voice vote on the rules, Rep. Steve Womack declared the rules approved and moved on.

Womack left the stage amid an uproar, only to return to the stage moments later for a second voice vote. He again declared that the 'ayes' had won, again to protests from the crowd.

Forcing a roll call vote requires support from the majorities of seven delegations. Anti-Trump delegates submitted what they said were a majority of signatures from at least 9: Colorado, Washington state, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming, Maine, Iowa, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The also claimed that Alaska had provided signatures as well.

But Womack, after the second voice vote, said on stage that three states had withdrawn from the roll call effort, leaving it short of the support needed.

The vote thwarted and the convention rules deemed approved, the convention moved on to a discussion of the official party platform.

The anti-Trump delegates opposed the rules and hoped to vote them down in the roll call vote. Their ultimate goal is to get a new set of rules that allow delegates to vote against Trump even if they are pledged to him based on the results of their state's primary or caucus rules, though they appear unlikely to have the votes to do either.

Forcing a vote on the rules would have temporarily thrown the convention into a lobbying frenzy, with delegates hoping to deny Trump the nomination work to convince a majority of the convention’s 2,472 delegates to reject the party’s rules and adopt new language that would help them sideline Trump.

Even if they'd likely have lost, the Never Trump delegates wanted a vote to display the lingering anti-Trump sentiment in the party — likely from hundreds of delegates — at a time GOP leaders and the Trump campaign are struggling to project unity.

Critics blasted the procedural moves to block the vote.

"I have never in all my life, certainly in six years in the United States Senate, prior to that as a lifelong Republican, never seen anything like this," said Utah Sen. Mike Lee. "There is no precedent for this in parliamentary procedure. There is no precedent for this in the rules of the Republican National Convention. We are now in uncharted territory. Somebody owes us an explanation. I have never seen the chair abandoned like that. They vacated the stage entirely."

Read more: Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces
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They had 16 candidates to choose from...Trump won.....now the very people who pushed Dole, McCain and Romney on us don't want to support Trump.....and they want to take their ball and go home........**** em.....

 

[2aguy]

Wait till the bernie supporters start up at the democrat convention..........now that is going to be epic.....they hurt people and break things over there......

 

[Faun]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

There's like ten state delegations about to walk out.

Question. When vote time comes around, if these delegates refuse to vote for Trump, will he have enough votes to garner the nomination?

IDK but they need to top acting like spoiled children, the people spoke. Let it be

That's odd? Since when do you brain-dead conservatives give a shit when "the people" speak??

"The people" spoke 3½ years ago when "the people" elected Barack Obama to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, should a seat on that bench become available -- yet you fruit-loop dinguses laud the GOP for taking the voice away from "the people" by denying Obama that Constitutional obligation.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

There's like ten state delegations about to walk out.

Question. When vote time comes around, if these delegates refuse to vote for Trump, will he have enough votes to garner the nomination?

IDK but they need to top acting like spoiled children, the people spoke. Let it be

That's odd? Since when do you brain-dead conservatives give a shit when "the people" speak??

"The people" spoke 3½ years ago when "the people" elected Barack Obama to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, should a seat on that bench become available -- yet you fruit-loop dinguses laud the GOP for taking the voice away from "the people" by denying Obama that Constitutional obligation.

Obama can nominate, it's up to Congress to approve, apples and oranges

 

[Faun]

It's over, the NeverTrump crowd got stuffed

There's like ten state delegations about to walk out.

Question. When vote time comes around, if these delegates refuse to vote for Trump, will he have enough votes to garner the nomination?

IDK but they need to top acting like spoiled children, the people spoke. Let it be

That's odd? Since when do you brain-dead conservatives give a shit when "the people" speak??

"The people" spoke 3½ years ago when "the people" elected Barack Obama to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, should a seat on that bench become available -- yet you fruit-loop dinguses laud the GOP for taking the voice away from "the people" by denying Obama that Constitutional obligation.

Obama can nominate, it's up to Congress to approve, apples and oranges

Who's talking about nominations? The president also appoints. Learn the Constitution. The GOP denied Obama of that Constitutional privilege and silenced "the people." You look like a complete imbecile supporting that while pretending like you give a shit about "the people" getting to speak.