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Republican National Convention delegates yell and scream as the Republican National Committee Rules Committee announces that it will not hold a recorded vote on the Rules Committee's Report and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold a roll-call vote, at the RNC in Cleveland, Ohio.
The GOP ignored a group seeking to change the rules for the Republican National Convention's presidential nominating process, which said it has enough signatures to force a vote on the matter.
A majority of delegates from ten states are prepared to demand a floor vote over convention rules, according to Delegates Unbound, the group organizing the rebellion.
"Despite every obstacle thrown in our way, the movement of all the stakeholders involved in this effort have gained a majority of the delegates in 10 states," said M. Dane Waters, co-founder of Delegates Unbound, in a statement. "Now we take this fight to the floor."
The vote is less about preventing Trump from becoming the official nominee, and is more about upending the convention planning and forcing the party establishment to recognize that all is not well.
"There is no convention, the highest authority of the Republican Party, until the delegates arrive and effectively create it," Delegates Unbound said in a
statement. "In the same way one Congress cannot bind a future Congress to adopt certain policies or programs, it defies all sense to suggest that the convention that creates and governs the Republican Party can somehow be bound by rules established by a previous convention."
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