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Staging a chaotic final effort to stop trumps nomination. Theres also the reported outbreak of norovirus, which has the california gop warning that state delegates should not even shake hands. And theres last nights headliner, Melania Trump, whose speech sounded awfully familiar. Your integrity, compassion, and intelligence deflects to this day on me. Her integrity. Her compassion. Her intelligence reflected in my daughters. That your work is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promi...

Lock her up from the Convention Floor last night. We have every angle of what happened covered. Lets begin this hour with Cnns Phil Mattingly inside the convention center. Phil . Reporter good morning, chris. Turning the page. Thats how one trump adviser in the wake of a turbulent first 24 hours of the convention described what tuesday night was all about and helping the Trump Campaign do just that, Donald Trumps children, the unquestioned stars of the night. It is my honor to be able to throw d...

Of course theres a lot of water under the bridge. He did not do what he said he would do. Not only did ted cruz not endorse donald trump he repeat ode the rally can kyle of the never trump, telling people to vote their conscious. Donald trumps democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, tweeting today, vote your conscience, and ted cruz went further than that. Listen to him describe this ideal g. O. P. Nominee. We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite is all behind shared values. Who cast as...

Afl-cio president richard trumka wrote this, quote, this year we will not be making monetary contributions to the convention or the host committee. we wont be buying skyboxes, hosting events. in fact, union leaders spent millions to stage their own so-called, shadow convention in philadelphia this weekend. that event was apparently organized in response to the democratic partys announcement that the dnc convention in september would be held in north carolina. that is the least unionized state in...

Afl, cio memo trunk can a says this year we will not be making major monetary to the the convention. wont be buying sky boxes or hosting events. union leaders did spend millions to stage their own so-called shadow convention in philadelphia this weekend. the event was apparently organized in response to the democratic partys announcement that the dnc convention would be held in september in charlotte where there are zero unionized hotels. also big labor reportedly isnt very happy the president s...

In the establishment arent very anxious to welcome us in. >> what am i doing this for? whats the purpose of all this? and in many ways, it is to send a message. >> the ron paul shadow convention across the river from the rnc in 2008 was a huge hull ba loo. a huge crowd. everybody paid $17.76 to get in. he made a ton of noise. ron paul said they were there to send a message. ultimately, what was the message? it was a lot of sound and fury signifying mostly nothing because they had nothing to do. ...

Paul, republicans that year also held a shadow convention at the same time in the other twin, in minneapolis. and it was like a real convention. red, white, and blue ticker tape, a capacity crowd of adoring fans for the politician they were there to see and had the rock song from a rock star, tom petty, who took legal action to try to get conservative politicians from using his music. the convention head across the river from the real teal was a ron paul extravaganza. it was so big, they had to ...

Holding their convention in tampa, florida, which is a drag for a lot of republicans because its the strip club captain of america -- you know, actually, i dont know. maybe thats a plus for them. tampa, i should note, is also the death metal capital of america. they gave the world bands like morbid angel and dsi and obituary. thats got to be a plus for some republicans going to the convention but probably not all of them. the last time around in 2008, it ended up being really important where the...

Message. >> the ron paul shadow convention across the river from the rnc in 2008 was a huge hull hullabaloo. they made a ton of noise, ron paul said they were there to send a message, but ultimately, what was the message? it was kind of a lot of sound and fury signifying mostly nothing because they did not have anything to do. i mean, ultimately, the real republican deal was across town with john mccain and sarah palin and none of the 10,000 ron paul fans in minneapolis had anything to work on, ...

What is the purpose of all this? and in many ways it is to send a message. >> the ron paul shadow convention across the river from the rnc in 2008 was a huge hull hullabaloo. they made a ton of noise, ron paul said they were there to send a message, but ultimately, what was the message? it was kind of a lot of sound and fury signifying mostly nothing because they did not have anything to do. i mean, ultimately, the real republican deal was across town with john mccain and sarah palin and none of...