Posted on Jul 11, 2016
Last chance for Never Trump: What to watch for this week in Cleveland
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Washington (CNN) — Republican Party leaders, donors and important delegates will flock to Cleveland this week for a series of meetings and negotiations that will determine whether or not Donald Trump can be stopped.
The anti-Trump forces will make their last stand -- fighting to alter party rules that would free up delegates bound to Trump and potentially block the presumptive presidential nominee from actually winning the nomination.
The long-shot challenge will also be the first major test for the somewhat tenuous alliance for Trump and Republican Party loyalists led by chairman Reince Priebus.
GOP leaders will also hash out the party's platform. This year has seen Trump go against party orthodoxy on trade and abortion -- a key question is how far he wants to go to change the platform, and how much of a fight Republican stalwarts will put up to maintain hard lines on certain social issues.
"You gotta have hope"
The anti-Trump forces will make their last stand -- fighting to alter party rules that would free up delegates bound to Trump and potentially block the presumptive presidential nominee from actually winning the nomination.
The long-shot challenge will also be the first major test for the somewhat tenuous alliance for Trump and Republican Party loyalists led by chairman Reince Priebus.
GOP leaders will also hash out the party's platform. This year has seen Trump go against party orthodoxy on trade and abortion -- a key question is how far he wants to go to change the platform, and how much of a fight Republican stalwarts will put up to maintain hard lines on certain social issues.
"You gotta have hope"
Last chance for Never Trump: What to watch for this week in Cleveland
Posted from cnn.com
Election 2016
Donald Trump
Conservative
Edited 8 y ago
Posted 8 y ago
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It's time to put up or shut up. Whomever the GOP nominates, the party had better put their differences aside and find a way to unite or we're going to suffer a fate worse than death
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The head guy of the RNC Rules Committee said this effort will be dismissed in short order. No chance, was his comment. They should just go to the DNC Convention and stand with Bernie the loser, far more fitting.
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The "party establishment" created the environment where Trump could thrive and now they are reaping what they've sown.
What the party should be doing is looking at how it can reinvent itself, bring back all the moderates who have fled or shunned the party in the last ~16 years and focus on winning back the white house in 2020. And I am deliberately using the phrase "winning back the white house" as opposed to "denying Hillary a second term" because that kind of negativity is a big part of the problem.
What the party should be doing is looking at how it can reinvent itself, bring back all the moderates who have fled or shunned the party in the last ~16 years and focus on winning back the white house in 2020. And I am deliberately using the phrase "winning back the white house" as opposed to "denying Hillary a second term" because that kind of negativity is a big part of the problem.
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