Chaos As Rules Are Adopted At Republican Convention

The Stop-Trump movement makes its last stand at the RNC today as they demanded that delegates be free to vote their conscience. The vote on the rules was rushed through and the demand by at least nine delegations for a roll call vote was denied even though only though threshold for a vote was only seven states. Former Senator Gordon Humphrey tried to make a point of order and parliamentary inquiry to demand a roll call vote and claimed he was shouted down by what he described as "brownshirts. They may not be fascists but they act like it." The Colorado delegation has walked out and Senator Mike Lee of Utah was incredulous that the chairman of the convention simply walked off the stage during this brouhaha. Former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli accused the RNC of ignoring the rules and simply said, "they cheated".

This comes on top of Paul Manafort saying earlier this morning that John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, is "embarrassing his state" by refusing to endorse Trump. Since no Republican has ever won the Presidency without carrying the state of Ohio, perhaps it is not a wise idea to diss the governor of that state. But it is typical of the Trump campaign.