Tag: GOP Convention
Play ‘Republican National Convention Bingo’
Courtesy of Stephen Colbert and the “Late Show” there is a way for disgruntled Republicans to have fun during the Trump-vention.
Trump Explains Why Palin Isn’t on GOP Convention Program
She was asked. It’s a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it’s a long ways away.
— Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin isn’t included in the official list of speakers for the Republican National Convention next week, quoted by the Washington Examiner.
Another Thing Republicans Would Rather Do than Attend the GOP Convention
I would rather attend the public hanging of a good friend.
— GOP strategist Will Ritter, quoted by Politico, on whether he’ll attend the Republican convention.
Kasich Is in a Predicament
It is odd, isn’t it? It’s going to be strange.
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who “finds himself in a peculiar situation these days. He’s responsible for helping to safeguard a Republican convention he will not speak at, a nominee he will not support and an arena he probably will not step foot in,” the Washington Post reports.
GOP Voters Favor Candidate with Most Votes for Nominee
62%
Of Republican voters believe that, if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, the one with the most votes should be the party’s nominee, according to a new NBC/WSJ poll. That’s compared with 33% of Republicans who say the nominee instead should be the candidate whom convention delegates think would be the party’s best standard-bearer.
What Price Democracy?
On Cleveland do the pundits concentrate,
As the nomination equation they calculate.
But what will count at the convention
Is the most important calculation —
What exactly does it cost to buy a delegate?