Cleveland gets ready for Republican National Convention

The convention will be a coming-out of sorts for Trump’s vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

All four adult children of Donald Trump are scheduled to speak at the convention throughout the week, and Trump’s Slovenia-born third wife, former model Melania Trump, will be among he featured speakers on Monday.

“I think there’s been a lot of excitement and build-up regarding Trump’s candidacy”, said McCormack, who attended the Republican National Convention in 2012.

The lineup of Republican speakers is eclectic for a political convention and is meant to root Trump’s candidacy in a culture beyond the political establishment.

McLean, though, said he expects that Trump will spend more time, energy, and money in the traditional swing states of Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, where recent polls have showed tight battles.

“Experience teaches those in charge of security how to better handle that over time”, said Owens, who noted he plans to vote for Trump’s nomination.

The vast majority of those delegates – 23 – are pledged to Texas Sen.

A group called Northeast Ohio Open Carry had planned a noon rally Sunday in downtown Cleveland, but only 57-year-old Steve Thacker showed up with guns.

Among them is state Sen.

Conventional wisdom about Democratic dominance in CT might be incorrect this year, says Gary Rose, a longtime political science professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.

Beavers disagreed, saying she believes Trump would be able to unite the party. But he said the delegation is now unified.

Brandishing his running mate’s job-creating credentials, Trump ticked through a list of statistics he said showed how Pence had pulled IN out of economic recessions: an unemployment rate that fell to less than 5 percent on his watch, an uptick IN the labor force and a decrease IN IN residents on unemployment insurance. They’re first trying to change party rules to allow delegates to cast “a vote of conscience” and abandon Trump.

And while Cramer’s attitude on his trip to the buckeye state is tuned to terrorism, it coincides with a broader and deeper uncertainty over local unrest playing out nationally on exactly what could happen at next week’s convention.

The Nevada Republican Party is sending 30 delegates and 27 alternates to the convention, which ends Thursday with the nomination. “What can I do to stop this?'” said David Pepper, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. “He is who he is, and that isn’t going to change, and neither are the reasons I will never vote for him”.

Cleveland officials have spent more than a year putting a security plan in place, retooling it after mass casualty events in the US and overseas – from the sniper-style shootings in Dallas to the truck attack in Nice, France just three days ago.

“They may say I’m not insane about Trump, but I’m not insane about the whole email thing, ” Rose said. “That’s not going to help”.

The New Jersey Republican State Committee, the state delegation’s host this week at the Doubletree Hotel in Beachwood, Ohio, is letting business interests sponsor breakfasts and lunches and receptions at the delegation hotel and is including them in the delegation’s schedule. White is hugely known and hugely popular among average voters, and having Gulbis and White deliver testimonials to Trump is a hell of a lot more effective than having yet another Republican senator do the same.

Nor are younger and minority voters likely to be swayed much by Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Christie said if the election were held right now, “I’d vote for him”. The head of Cleveland’s police union, a Second Amendment supporter, has called it “insanity”.

Twitter and CBS News are partnering to livestream the convention. Yet a number of the delegates assembled in Cleveland for this week’s GOP Convention have enough doubts about him as a candidate they are mounting a last-ditch Dump Trump effort. But since Cruz has dropped out of the race, she’s torn on what the right choice should be. Ted Cruz, but they are now free to support whomever they want because Cruz is no longer running.

The problem the Republicans have today is there is no Eisenhower waiting to step in, and you can’t beat someone with no one.

Republicans descended on Cleveland, a city tense with security concerns and fears that street protests could turn into riots, as Trump on Saturday brought a chaotic and sometimes surreal vice-presidential selection process to its formal conclusion.

“This convention is going to be a unifying convention”, Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, vowed in an interview. Although Trump has recently adopted a more “presidential” approach, including the use of the teleprompters he once derided, viewers – including those who wouldn’t normally watch a GOP event – will be drawn to his speech to see what the controversial candidate has to say. “I don’t want to be an outsider”.

But first-time attendee Jennifer Newendyke, 21, was less interested in a seeing a Trump pep rally among party loyalists who remain deeply divided over the presumptive nominee.