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Donald Trump's campaign chairman says one purpose of the Republican National Convention is to redefine the GOP presidential nominee. Paul Manafort said on ABC Wednesday that, "we feel that the American people don't know all of Donald Trump."
Members of the New York delegation cheer for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the roll call at the Republican National Convention, Tuesday, July 19, 2016, in Cleveland. Members of the New York delegation cheer for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the roll call at the Republican National Convention, Tuesday, July 19, 2016, in Cleveland.
The art of the coronation has taken something of a beating at the Republican National Convention. Nevertheless, Donald Trump now has the crown - and a final chance to summon unity from the party's restive ranks in the ritual's closing days.
Washington state delegate Eric Minor talks to reporters as he reacts to a roll call vote on the adoption of the rules during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. Washington state delegate Eric Minor talks to reporters as he reacts to a roll call vote on the adoption of the rules during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016.
The Republican National Convention is set to kick off as the nation reels from another deadly shooting and dissident delegates stage a longshot, last-gasp effort to deny Donald Trump the GOP nomination for president. Amid the tumult, it was undeniably Trump's moment - a week at the pinnacle of American politics that few could have imagined when the New York billionaire entered the race a year ago.
Whatever one thinks of his embattled and often erratic presidency, President Obama remains unrivaled as an orator. And America's first black president put both law enforcement and the African-American community on notice during his 40-minute address at Tuesday's memorial service for five Dallas police officers slain by a Black Lives Matter sympathizer bent on cold-blooded murder during an otherwise peaceful protest regarding, ironically, police use of deadly force nationwide.
Donald Trump said Saturday that his running mate's original endorsement of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz during the GOP primaries was actually, in fact, more of an endorsement for him. "Gov. Pence, under tremendous pressure from establishment people, endorsed somebody else," Trump said, referencing the Indiana Republican primary.
Dan Senor, a respected Republican strategist who served as a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, suggested on Friday that Donald Trump's vice presidential pick once found the real estate mogul's politics repulsive. In a tweet just hours after Trump announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate , Senor said he found the choice perplexing considering the two had previously shared a distaste for the candidate.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence at Grant Park Event Center in Westfield, Indiana, on July 12, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence at Grant Park Event Center in Westfield, Indiana, on July 12, 2016.
The struggle by conservatives for an eleventh-hour derailment of Donald Trump's drive to the Republican presidential nominee is gasping for breath after a committee at the Republican National Convention resoundingly rejected their push to let delegates support the candidate of their choice. The convention's rules committee, dominated by Trump backers and top national and state GOP officials, used a voice vote late Thursday to reject the proposal, a result that was expected.
The anti-Donald Trump movement was dealt a resounding defeat late Thursday night, as any realistic hopes of keeping the New York billionaire from winning the nomination slipped away with a series of votes in the small but powerful Rules Committee. The effort to stop Trump from clinching the nomination on the first ballot next week was centered on the concept of unbinding all the delegates at the convention to back any candidate they wished.
Those who were looking forward to Tom Brady speaking at next week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland will have to settle for another quarterback, Tim Tebow. Tebow, the Heisman Trophy winner from Florida who is currently an ESPN analyst, is one of a number of sports figures on the list of speakers approved by presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.
In this April 3, 2016 file photo, Corey Lewandowski talks to a member of the media at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wis. The Associated Press reported last month that Trump requires nearly everyone in his campaign and businesses to sign legally binding nondisclosure agreements prohibiting them from releasing any confidential or disparaging information about the real estate mogul, his family or his companies.
From a spartan 16th-floor office they've rented just blocks from this week's preliminary meetings of the Republican National Convention, some of the GOP rebels trying to head off Donald Trump are laying the groundwork for revolt. Dumping the party's presumptive presidential nominee is a longshot.
Sen. Ted Cruz accepted an invitation from President Barack Obama to travel aboard Air Force One on Tuesday to Dallas for an interfaith memorial honoring the victims of last week's attack. The news was reported by multiple reporters who spotted Cruz at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland where the president's plane departs from.
A number of major U.S. companies that have supported GOP convention s in the past have pulled their sponsorships from the 2016 edition, set to take place next weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. Some didn't specify their reasons for backing out, but Emily Lauer, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland host committee, told Bloomberg on June 16 that the lull in corporate commitments seemed to rise around the same time that Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich dropped out, leaving front-runner Donald Trump alone in the GOP field.
The first signs of how much turbulence Donald Trump will face on his convention flight to the Republican presidential nomination will be on display in committee meeting rooms this week in Cleveland. Inside the Huntington Convention Center, a few blocks from the arena where Trump is expected to accept the nomination on July 21, the Republican National Convention's Platform and Rules committees will debate what the party stands for and how the following week's convention will operate.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., July 5, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RTX2JVKW CLEVELAND, Ohio-Republican National Committee delegates determined to stop Donald Trump at the GOP Convention next week are in the final planning stages of their mission.
Caitlyn Jenner isn't wavering in her support for Republicans; she just booked an appearance in Cleveland, the site of the Republican National Convention, two days after the confab begins on July 18. Jenner will appear at a "Big Tent Brunch" hosted by groups like Equality Ohio and socially-liberal conservatives, including the American Unity Fund and the Log Cabin Republicans, the latter being an LGBT GOP organization. Former talk show host Montell Williams, a Republican LGBT rights supporter, will introduce Jenner at the event, which will call for the party to embrace queer rights in its new platform.
A Dallas Police Department officer crouches behind a patrol car with a still-active shooter on the scene in downtown Dallas on July 7, 2016. Downtown Dallas erupted into chaos late Thursday night when at least five police officers were shot and killed and another six were injured by two snipers who interrupted a march organized in protest of recent police-involved shootings in other cities.