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| Trump's campaign chairman says he's made a decision on VP pick – live | Trump's campaign chairman says he's made a decision on VP pick – live |
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| Congressman Keith Ellison says Newt Gingrich’s call for Muslins to be tested and deported if they support sharia law was “pandering” by vilyfing Muslims and that former congressman should know better. | |
| “He does know better. That’s the sad thing about Newt Gingrich. He’s a very smart man, it’s just calculating, pandering, and it’s really sad,” said the Democrat from Minnesota on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday. | |
| Ellison added: | |
| That’s the problem with what Newt Gingrich is saying. He’s talking about violent attacks on innocent people. That is what we all must condemn. That is what is unacceptable, and we have to engage everyone to stop this kind of thing, and that means whether you’re Muslim, Christian, Jew, whatever you are. We have to confront it together. | |
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| From politics reporter Ben Jacobs on the rules committee decision that ended the #NeverTrump push last night. | |
| The desperate last-ditch attempt to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the Republican nominee was quashed in a late night committee meeting on Thursday. | |
| The rules committee of the Republican National Convention shut down an effort by the Never Trump movement to allow delegates to vote according to their conscience and not be bound by the result of their states’ primaries. The hope of these advocates of “freeing the delegates” is that, once unbound and free to oppose Trump, they would deny the presumptive nominee a majority on the floor of the convention and force a second ballot. | |
| The process for them to do so was to gain to the support of one quarter of the rules committee so that they would have the backing of a minority report on allowing delegates to be unbound and freely votes their conscience. However, they fell far short of doing so. | |
| Trump postpones expected unveiling of Mike Pence as VP after attack in NiceRead more | |
| The effort was shut down in a series of votes, many of which were held without debate as the Trump campaign organized delegates to force speedy votes. The only time there was a recorded vote on the topic, only a dozen members of the committee supported the Never Trump effort, far short of the 28 needed to force a minority report. | |
| The Trump effort to shut down opposition featured Utah senator Mike Lee being left standing at a microphone unable to speak on a motion to allow delegates to freely vote their conscience if they had qualms about the candidate they were pledged to after a procedural motion to end debate passed after only one speaker. | |
| The only proponent of the topic to speak before debate ended, Kendal Unruh of Colorado, compared forcing delegates to vote for a candidate to which they were morally opposed to forcing doctors to perform abortions. | |
| Read the rest of the article here. | |
| Related: Republicans quash last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump becoming nominee | |
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| Reporters in Indiana are trying to get Governor Mike Pence to confirm he will be the CP pick for Donald Trump, staking out the Secretary of State office where Pence or someone from his office needs to file papers by 12pm today to withdraw from the governor’s race. | Reporters in Indiana are trying to get Governor Mike Pence to confirm he will be the CP pick for Donald Trump, staking out the Secretary of State office where Pence or someone from his office needs to file papers by 12pm today to withdraw from the governor’s race. |
| Staking out the Indiana Secretary of State's Office. @GovPenceIN has until noon to withdraw from governor's race. pic.twitter.com/jMWswc4Ild | Staking out the Indiana Secretary of State's Office. @GovPenceIN has until noon to withdraw from governor's race. pic.twitter.com/jMWswc4Ild |
| Secretary of State's office says they don't know when/if Gov. Pence or someone for Pence will be here. pic.twitter.com/lR2oL32hzT | Secretary of State's office says they don't know when/if Gov. Pence or someone for Pence will be here. pic.twitter.com/lR2oL32hzT |
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| Hello and welcome to our campaign live blog. Just three days to go until the Republican National Convention but it’s a somber Friday on the campaign trail after a terror attack in Nice, France saw 84 people killed and dozens injured after a truck ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day. | Hello and welcome to our campaign live blog. Just three days to go until the Republican National Convention but it’s a somber Friday on the campaign trail after a terror attack in Nice, France saw 84 people killed and dozens injured after a truck ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day. |
| Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump was supposed to announced his vice-presidential pick – expected to be Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana - in a ceremony at Trump Tower at 11am (VPprentice, as CNN dubbed it this week). But Trump delayed the announcement because of the Nice attacks. | Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump was supposed to announced his vice-presidential pick – expected to be Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana - in a ceremony at Trump Tower at 11am (VPprentice, as CNN dubbed it this week). But Trump delayed the announcement because of the Nice attacks. |
| But it gets a little tricky: in order to withdraw from the Indiana Governor race, Pence has to file documents by 12 o’clock today. Currently Trump’s website says: “please check back later for an updated schedule.” | But it gets a little tricky: in order to withdraw from the Indiana Governor race, Pence has to file documents by 12 o’clock today. Currently Trump’s website says: “please check back later for an updated schedule.” |
| Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, announced on Fox News this morning that Trump has made his VP pick and will announce it over the weekend, with more details expected this morning. | Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, announced on Fox News this morning that Trump has made his VP pick and will announce it over the weekend, with more details expected this morning. |
| Manafort just now on Fox News says Trump has "reached a decision" | Manafort just now on Fox News says Trump has "reached a decision" |
| Manafort: Trump will make an announcement "this weekend" and "thinks" it'll happen before Cleveland | Manafort: Trump will make an announcement "this weekend" and "thinks" it'll happen before Cleveland |
| One of the hopefuls battling for Trump’s veep role, Newt Gingrich, last night called for testing and possible deportations of American Muslims after the Nice attacks because “Western civilization is at war.” | One of the hopefuls battling for Trump’s veep role, Newt Gingrich, last night called for testing and possible deportations of American Muslims after the Nice attacks because “Western civilization is at war.” |
| Gingrich called for the testing of “every person who is of a Muslim background” to clarify if they “believe in sharia”. If they should be deemed a sympathiser, they should be deported, he told Fox News. | Gingrich called for the testing of “every person who is of a Muslim background” to clarify if they “believe in sharia”. If they should be deemed a sympathiser, they should be deported, he told Fox News. |
| “Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail. Any organization which hosts such a website should be engaged in a felony. It should be closed down immediately,” he said. | “Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail. Any organization which hosts such a website should be engaged in a felony. It should be closed down immediately,” he said. |
| Meanwhile, the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton released a statement condemning the attacks on “one of our strongest allies in Europe”: | Meanwhile, the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton released a statement condemning the attacks on “one of our strongest allies in Europe”: |
| Every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France and we say with one voice: we will not be intimidated. ... We will never allow terrorist to undermine the egalitarian and democratic values that underpin our very way of life. This cowardly attack only strengthens or commitment to our alliance and to defeating terrorism around the world. | Every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France and we say with one voice: we will not be intimidated. ... We will never allow terrorist to undermine the egalitarian and democratic values that underpin our very way of life. This cowardly attack only strengthens or commitment to our alliance and to defeating terrorism around the world. |
| "Every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France" —Hillary on the attack in Nice pic.twitter.com/BBGgHucSE0 | "Every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France" —Hillary on the attack in Nice pic.twitter.com/BBGgHucSE0 |
| And in RNC news, Trump officially held back the #NeverTrump movement, after the RNC rules committee decided not to change its rules of the nomination process and open up the contest so that a new nominee could appear during the convention. | And in RNC news, Trump officially held back the #NeverTrump movement, after the RNC rules committee decided not to change its rules of the nomination process and open up the contest so that a new nominee could appear during the convention. |
| In the end there were only 12 #NeverTrump supporters out of 112 people in the rules committee. Campaign manager Manafort was gleeful in an interview with the Washington Post: | In the end there were only 12 #NeverTrump supporters out of 112 people in the rules committee. Campaign manager Manafort was gleeful in an interview with the Washington Post: |
| “So now do you finally accept the fact that the ‘Never Trump’ is nevermore?” he asked in a telephone interview as he was driven back to his apartment. “Period. End of sentence.” | “So now do you finally accept the fact that the ‘Never Trump’ is nevermore?” he asked in a telephone interview as he was driven back to his apartment. “Period. End of sentence.” |
| Related: Republicans quash last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump becoming nominee | Related: Republicans quash last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump becoming nominee |