He Had to Wait for LeBron, but Donald Trump Can Finally Set Up His Convention

[brooklynite]

The New York Times:

CLEVELAND — A series of delays and questions about security and fund-raising are causing Republicans to scramble as they finish planning their nominating convention just weeks before the party gathers in Cleveland.

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The convention’s host committee is short of its $64 million fund-raising goal. Shortly after Mr. Trump became the presumptive nominee in April, one major sponsor rescinded on a contribution of about $1 million. Though the committee said it had since made up that amount and more, it still had to collect $7 million, as of last week.

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The Trump campaign, whose team of about a dozen staff members arrived in Cleveland after Memorial Day, is still working on its plans for where Mr. Trump will deliver his speeches. (He has said he may speak each night from a different city before arriving here.)

As for the convention program, the lineup of speakers is still very fluid. During meetings last week, staff members for the Trump campaign and the national committee sat down to draft a wish list of celebrities and prominent political figures they would contact. They broke it down into ones Mr. Trump should call himself (Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, for example) and those who would be left for aides to handle (Kenny Rogers, Jack Nicklaus and Diamond and Silk, the African-American sisters who gained notice after making YouTube videos praising Mr. Trump), convention planners said.

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