Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

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Anti-Trump delegates say they will force roll call vote on rules

They have majority backing from 9 states' delegations per journalists covering this (need 7). Gordon Humphrey delivered it to a convention official. Delivery confirmed by North Dakota delegate Barry Emineth.

Washington, Iowa, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming, District of Columbia, Virginia, Maine, and Colorado.

Currently people that signed are getting pressured to back off per a few of those journalists.

Haha, a Trump state.

Washington was also a Trump state, but only because everyone else dropped out before Washington Republicans got to vote.

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I'm genuinely saddened.

I am genuinely scared.

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That speech makes me sick to my stomach. Because it could work.

Yeah. If Trump had developed that sort of coherent message a few months ago, he would be doing much better in the polls than he is right now.

On a semi-serious note, has anyone checked the speech for plagiarism?

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What's the Q mean??

Queer, which to a lot of people isn't a slur any more (although to a lot of people it still is, and those people tend to hate its addition to The Acronym).

The term 'queer' is sometimes used in place of LGBT(Q), as it is an umbrella term.  The term is controversial within the community, and is more accepted by younger LGBTQ people, as older members of the community are more likely to remember it as exclusively a slur.  

As a bisexual person, I'm still not sold on Trump or the GOP, despite the moments of this speech and Thiel.  That platform reeks.

Pence is horrible, too.