POLITICO delegate survey: Dump Trump lacks the votes

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Source: Politico

By Kyle Cheney
06/24/16 06:35 PM EDT

Republicans looking to dump Donald Trump at next month’s convention have passion, energy and a fierce sense that their party will suffer unless Trump is unseated. What they appear to lack, however, are the votes to make it happen.

POLITICO reached out to all 112 members of the committee that will write the rules of the national GOP convention. This is the panel that anti-Trump activists hope to jam a proposal through to free convention delegates to spurn Trump and select another candidate instead. What emerged from the survey, though, is a portrait of a committee with little interest in the dump Trump crowd. In fact, most members may be eager to stop them.

“I support DJT 100%,” said Alabama rules committee member Laura Payne in an email. “I ran to support … Trump & to represent the voters of Alabama. It may or may not be an attempt, but the voters will prevail.”

"Trying to change the rules in mid-game because you don't like the outcome is tantamount to saying you are going to take your ball and go home because you are losing," said Christine Serrano, a Rules Committee delegate from New Jersey. "I will be supporting our Nominee, Donald J. Trump."

It was a common sentiment. Among the 32 committee members who responded, 25 said they would fight efforts to stop Trump’s nomination. . Another 33 members of the panel have been previously on record as endorsing Trump or rejecting efforts to rip the nomination away from him at the convention.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/politico-delegate-survey-dump-trump-unwelcome-in-cleveland-224796

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Caveat: the guy who wrote this article is named Cheney. Granular Sodium Consumption Advised.

[welivetotreadonkings]

1. Not too much of a surprise

It's amazing how so many in the media haven't grasped how radical the GOP has become. We keep deluding ourselves that there's this significant "moderate" portion in the Republican party when really it's just varying degrees of xenophobia amongst the majority of their elected leaders. We all knew what Romney was trying to convey by his 47% nonsense, Trump just lacks the skills required for verbal gymnastics.

[groundloop]

2. This should be good.

[YOHABLO]

3. Lordy lordy, can't wait for the first debate. If there'll be one.

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4. The GOP should lie in the bed they made.

As good as they are at lying, that shouldn't be too much to ask.