Strange Bedfellows (In Failed Political Assault): How Trump and #NeverTrump Defeated Long Overdue Reform Of The RNC
Strange Bedfellows (In Failed Political Assault): How Trump and #NeverTrump Defeated Long Overdue Reform Of The RNC
Public Advocate president Eugene Delgaudio was at the convention and observed
anti-Trump forces working hand in glove with various factions, in fact and in
practice.
"There is a polite separation or explicit distance from each of the factions
but the world witnessed a complete collusion in the glare of the news media
which documented this failed political assault," says Eugene Delgaudio, president
of Public Advocate.
"I told a ringleader directly to his face: "as far as political theater goes,
you suck" which was meant as begrudging tribute to his massive disruption, " says Delgaudio.
This account below is accurate and detailed to a point but it presumes that there was no actual collusion between the respective factions:
From Conservative HQ:
The most misunderstood and misreported story of the 2016 Republican National Convention is undoubtedly the Monday floor fight over whether or not there would be a roll call vote on the new Rules for the Republican National Committee.
Most of the media, and many if not most Trump delegates, seem convinced that the fight was all about "unbinding" delegates bound to vote for Trump by virtue of his primary vote.
The reality is that the impetus behind the efforts of Virginia's National Committeeman Morton Blackwell and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had nothing to do with the #NeverTrump effort to "unbind" delegates bound to Donald Trump - it was all about reforms to the Rules to return control of the RNC back to the state party organizations and grassroots Republican precinct officials that Blackwell has been working on for years..................