Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Republicans demonstrated increased unity last night as delegates previously pledged to others voted for Donald Trump
Trump, who won 1543 delegates in the primary season, received 1725 votes from the floor as states like Michigan upped their ante from the 25 bound delegates for Trump to 51. Trump increased his support by almost 12%.
Similarly Pennsylvania which had 17 votes bound for Trump and 64 total committed cast 70 for him.
Both states passed on their votes in the roll call in order to allow the New York delegation to put their favored son over the top for the nomination, showing that Michigan and Pennsylvania have New York values, too.
Ted Cruz, who won 559 delegates in the primaries and caucuses, received 475 votes from the floor, 15% fewer than he had won.
Marco Rubio, who had won 165, received 114, 31% fewer.
John Kasich, who had won 161, received 120, 25% fewer.
Ben Carson received 7, Jeb Bush 3 (previously had 4) and Rand Paul 2 (previously had 1).
It appears that 26 votes of the 2472 total delegates were not cast at all (no shows? neverTrumpers? never allocated?). No votes were cast for Fiorina or Huckabee on the floor, each of whom had won one in the primaries.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Monday, July 18, 2016
Republican Convention Day 1 Laugh of the Day, courtesy of Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA
"I'm from the great state of Illinois. The cool thing about Illinois is we have term limits. One term in office and one term in jail."
More about Charlie here.
Obama condones violence against police by broadcasting from abroad that cops need to admit they have a problem
A week ago, here, from Spain:
"[T]here’s data and evidence to back up the concerns that are being expressed by these [Black Lives Matter] protesters. And if police organizations and departments acknowledge that there’s a problem and there’s an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions."
Kick 'em out of NATO: Coup in Turkey staged by Islamist Erdogan, had at the ready a prepared list of 6,000 people to arrest
Reported here:
Following a failed coup attempt on Saturday, Turkish authorities on Sunday rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, ranging from top commanders to foot soldiers, and the same number of judges and prosecutors.
French PM Manuel Valls seems to think that dying at the hands of terrorists is living
Quoted here:
“We would like to tell the French people that we will never give in,” Mr. Valls said outside the Élysée Palace, in Paris. “We will not give in to the terrorist threat. The times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism.”
Oh the horror: The French might actually get angry and do something, disturbing effetes everywhere
From the story here:
I wish I could say this was just hysterical exaggeration. But the evidence does not support complacency. Just down the road from me on the outskirts of Montpellier on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, there's long been a gun club where enthusiastic game hunters can polish their skills during the off-season. Unlike in Britain, it is perfectly legal for members of such clubs to own pistols and semi-automatic rifles.
In the last few months, since the wave of terrorism has intensified, the membership of the gun club has quadrupled, from 200 to 800 members. The new members are not all motivated by the love of shooting sports. Benoit, a local olive farmer who owns more than a dozen rifles, pistols and shotguns, as well as an AK-47 assault rifle, admitted to me this weekend something much darker.
"They're getting ready for a war," he said.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Hypocrite Obama has tried to get around the law his entire presidency, today speaks up for it to make sure the history books trim his record
Quoted here:
"Attacks on police are an attack on all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible," Obama emphasized Sunday.
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
Germany and France have suppressed the truth about the animalistic brutality of Islamist terrorists in recent incidents
Reported here, if you can stomach it.
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