The hotel is exciting, welcoming expats from all over the world for convention after convention after convention.
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Oh and the media center is in the convention center, but the convention is not in the convention center.
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This week, convention season begins with the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, followed by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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The Republican National Convention largely framed itself not as a pro-Donald Trump convention but as an anti-Hillary Clinton convention.
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This convention was the 12th Democratic convention he has attended.
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The Democratic Party's convention was a normal political party's convention.
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The 85033 Annapolis Convention proposed the outstandingly successful Constitutional Convention.
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Where the Democrats are having their convention, their national convention.
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Convention-goers were dressed like convention-goers: the convention center was awash in business casual khaki slacks and logo-ed golf shirts.
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" He vowed, "The Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention.
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The Republican Party's convention was not a normal political party's convention.
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"The Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention," he said.
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During the Republican convention, it became very clear that Melania Trump's 2016 convention speech had lifted two paragraphs from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.
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In other words, the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention.
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Two prominent convention speakers saw their stock rise post-convention as well.
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" He added: "In other words, the convention will be a contested convention.
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The rules for each convention are ultimately decided at the convention itself.
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A constitutional convention and a Convention of States are two different things.
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The convention isn't a Hallmark convention — except it totally kind of is.
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We are thinking of having a convention in 2025 where we will think of having a convention in 2026 to discuss the outcome of the convention.
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I suppose we wanted as well to break TV convention, the visual convention.
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Bernie or Bust protesters have demonstrated outside the convention hall throughout the convention.
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" Should a constitutional convention take place, it could easily become a "runaway convention.
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Worries about the Democratic Convention While the spotlight this year was on the Republican primary and prospect for a contested convention and protests at the national convention in Cleveland, some Democrats now worry about that happening at their convention in Philadelphia.
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Each caucus picks a set of delegates to a county convention, which then selects delegates for a district convention ... which then selects delegates for the statewide convention.
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They'd be finalized [the day before the convention] but the rules committee of the convention will have done their work in the week prior to the convention.
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Peter recommends Mashable's coverage of the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention.
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" "In other words," he said, "the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention.
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The first comic-book convention was the Tri-State Convention on July 22001, 220.
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The Democratic convention appeared to benefit her more than the Republican convention aided Trump.
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The convention will take place in downtown Pittsburgh at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
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The convention and nominating process is currently governed by rules passed at the 2012 convention.
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Raul Reyes: A mismanaged convention Donald Trump's convention was grossly mismanaged and lacking in cohesion.
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Yes, it is a surreal convention -- a convention that is tonally all over the place.
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The convention coincides with the Republican National Convention, which will run from July 18-21.
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The president addresses the National Electrical Contractors Convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
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Violence tore through the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, inside and outside the convention hall.
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It recently streamed the Republican National Convention and will also stream the Democratic National Convention.
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" After calling the 2012 GOP convention "the single most boring convention I've ever seen," Trump promised to bring a "showbiz" factor to his own convention, saying in April, "It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep.
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In most conventions, the rules from the old convention are simply approved for the newest convention.
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The state convention is scheduled for April 30 at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona.
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They know this isn't what their 2012 convention looked like or how their 2008 convention felt.
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But it was not a "constitutional convention," and neither is any other convention for proposing amendments.
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Sarah Isgur: A brokered convention looks less likely Were predictions of a brokered convention too hasty?
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It was also used during the 2016 Massachusetts Democratic Convention and the 2016 Utah Republican Convention.
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D.N.C. officials have long insisted that a contested convention, sometimes called a brokered convention, is unlikely.
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Puerto Rico has 22020 delegates to the Democratic convention, and 23 delegates to the Republican convention.
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The convention rules committee is an entirely different body, created and dissolved specifically for the convention.
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It was also used during the 85033 Massachusetts Democratic Convention and the 2016 Utah Republican Convention.
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The fair continues at the Miami Beach Convention Center (1901 Convention Center Drive) through December 4.
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I stopped doing convention commissions soon after this, and I no longer go to that convention.
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RELATED: Top Republicans may skip convention 'A big area of unknown' The prospect of a contested convention confounds the vice presidential process for two groups: the campaigns and the convention planners.
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Favorability ratings for Trump's wife, Melania, climbed from 27% pre-convention to 43% post-convention, despite news that her Monday night speech contained passages lifted from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic convention speech.
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"There are multiple ways for people to get into the convention spirit without going to the convention itself," said the Reverend Leah D. Daughtry, the chief executive of the Democratic National Convention.
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But after allegations her convention speech plagiarized parts of Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech, the official Republican nominee's wife, a successful model and fashion businesswoman, has been the talk of the convention.
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Everybody is talking about a Republican open convention (but) the Democrats are going to an open convention.
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Manafort's hire as Trump's convention manager added decades of political experience and convention expertise to the campaign.
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Manafort managed the 1976 Republican presidential convention for Gerald Ford and the 1980 convention for Ronald Reagan.
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This year's convention is being held this week in California at the Anaheim Convention Center near Disneyland.
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Or that the Democratic convention in Philadelphia would be more unpredictable than the GOP convention in Cleveland?
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If the convention location thesis is correct, then locating the Republican National Convention in Cleveland makes sense.
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But Morgan Finkelstein, deputy press secretary for the convention denied talk of moving anything at the convention.
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I spoke with one Republican state convention delegate who voted rather unenthusiastically for Cruz at the convention.
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Female meeting, convention, and event planners make 102.4% as much as male meeting, convention, and event planners.
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Sexton reported that nearly 28503 Sanders delegates to the state convention were excluded from the convention process.
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Even before the convention, some Sanders supporters were challenging Lange's position as convention chair, questioning her neutrality.
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Each viable candidate group then elects delegates to go to the county convention, who will in turn elect delegates to the (congressional) district convention and state convention, and those district and state delegates elect the delegates that will go to the national convention to vote on the nominee.
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Trump appears to have benefited from a polling bump after the Republican National Convention, and Clinton is also expected to get a post-convention bump after Friday's conclusion of the Democratic National Convention.
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" Stone explained the effort: "As you know, the state convention will select our delegates to the national convention.
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Refinery29's News team is on the ground covering the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention.
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Potential contested Republican Convention The very volatile GOP convention market is also showing signs of sensitivity this week.
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The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients.
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Haley Barbour, Republican National Committee Chairman, opens the GOP Convention in 1996 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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Gore did not attend the party's convention, but urged voters to back Clinton in his pre-convention message.
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The Democratic National convention is rediscovering its Midwestern roots by siting the 2020 Democratic convention in Milwaukee, Wis.
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CONVENTION APP: Republicans have launched an app specifically geared toward the nominating convention in Cleveland later this month.
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Delegates to the convention, for example, will not be able to take their guns onto the convention floor.
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The 20203 convention in New York was held at the same time as the 2020 convention will be.
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He spoke at both the Republican National Convention in 2000, and attended the Democratic National Convention that year.
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All Europe's states are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Refugee Convention.
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Who do you think would drink more: attendees of the Democratic National Convention or the Republican National Convention?
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In the past, the company has contributed funds to both the GOP convention and the Democratic National Convention.
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Noon: President Trump leaves Washington, D.C., for Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Saturday – Sunday: Politicon convention at the Pasadena Convention Center.
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The fundraising plea from the convention stage is the only such mention at either party's convention this year.
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The state convention drew 1,600 state delegates for the process of electing 41 delegates to the national convention.
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There are three major treaties: the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, the Convention on Psychotropic Drugs of 1971, and the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988.
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This would constitute a violation of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention against Torture, the American Convention and American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, and other international law.
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Clinton's convention appears to have helped her reverse the damage done to perceptions of her honesty during the GOP convention, but she did not improve those numbers compared with where they stood before either convention.
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The rules put in place in 2012 will govern the convention until the convention floor passes a new set.
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As Democrats prepare for their convention in little more than a week, Republicans open their convention Cleveland on Monday.
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BONUS: Help Hillary get to the end of this convention Help Hillary get to the end of this convention!
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Cruz won 14 of 14 Republican National Convention delegates up for grabs at the Wyoming state convention here Saturday.
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He has been to every Republican convention since 1964, and he's worked the floor at every convention since 1972.
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It sounded more like Michelle Obama's 2008 and 2012 convention speeches than, say, Bill Clinton's celebrated 2012 convention speech.
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"The Democratic convention was a convention of patriotism this year," wrote Erick Erickson, a conservative radio host and blogger.
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A "convention for proposing amendments", as prescribed by the constitution, is neither a "constitutional convention", nor is it dangerous.
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First, a Trump employee admitted to plagiarizing passages of Melania Trump's convention speech – from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.
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The other would ratify the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC convention), which criminalizes transnational organized crime.
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"If the DNC even intimated that they're not having a convention, then we're not having a convention," he said.
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There's a much smaller spike during the Democratic convention and no apparent increase before or during the Republican convention.
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And ultimately, Sanders's speech at the convention would probably have said more about him than about the convention itself.
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The 2018 convention marked the centennial of female "messengers," the decision to allow them voting rights in the convention.
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The convention will take place in downtown Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center from March 12 to 15.
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The actor spoke at the Republican National Convention in 85033 and attended the Democratic National Convention the same year.
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Snapshot: Above, at the Las Vegas Convention Center during International CES, the largest consumer electronics convention in the country.
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According to media reports from the convention, Cruz's speech incited raging anger from Trump supporters on the convention floor.
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He went to a pickup artist convention and there was a porn convention being held in the same hotel.
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Toni We're going to hear about this all the way to the convention, and most likely during the convention — maybe even after the convention: Bernie Sanders does better than Hillary Clinton in polling against Donald Trump.
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As different a convention as this was for many, one thing remained the same: The final night of the convention ended with confetti and thousands of red, white and blue balloons falling to the convention floor.
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It&aposs just like logistics in TV. They couldn&apost get the convention center, and they needed the convention center.
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She stood by Sanders through the Democratic convention, only announcing she would vote for Clinton days after the convention ended.
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"This is my ninth convention and I've never even had to contemplate" ejecting disruptive delegates from the convention, Buckley said.
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"It could be a really interesting convention," McConnell told Kentucky Republicans attending their state party's convention in Lexington on Saturday.
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Defying convention on command, rather than in pursuit of an actual personal goal, is just its own kind of convention.
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The convention follows the rules it sets when the convention opens, as was so clearly demonstrated in Chicago in 21998.
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The results are in: Donald Trump's modest post-convention bounce was wiped out by Hillary Clinton's larger post-convention bounce.
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Yet you're also presenting language poetry as breaking with convention, and I imagine you mean breaking with American convention specifically?
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In 2016, she became the first trans woman to speak at a major political convention at the Democratic National Convention.
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"This is a Trump convention," he said, adding that the presumptive presidential nominee will make several appearances during the convention.
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The Republican National Convention goes first, starting today in Cleveland, before the Democratic Convention begins on July 25th in Philadelphia.
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The state's convention is underway this weekend to decide which delegates will head to the Republican National Convention in July.
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Libertarian Gary Johnson visited the Republican Convention, and Jill Stein of the Green Party led rallies at the Democratic Convention.
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"He is a Manhattan convention delegate who can have more sway on the convention floor without formal endorsement," she explains.
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The convention committee said the lineup is intended to counter the message of the Republican National Convention the week before.
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The Working Families convention is Saturday, only days before the crucial Democratic Party convention, where Mr. Cuomo holds great sway.
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After that, the convention rules committee and finally a majority of all convention delegates must approve the whole rules package.
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It was no easy task: The convention is very well staffed, and black-suited convention employees kept an eye out for convention registration badges at the doorway to every ballroom lecture hall and breakout-session dining room.
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" That Convention required delegates to take a loyalty pledge: "Every person occupying a seat in this convention is bound in good honor and good faith to abide by the action of this convention, and support its nominee.
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As the site makes clear, an open convention occurs when no single candidate can secure 1,237 delegate votes by the convention.
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As the site makes clear, an open convention occurs when no single candidate can secure 43,237 delegate votes by the convention.
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She gave the opening address at the 1892 Kansas Populist convention and was an at-large delegate at the national convention.
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Delaware's GOP state convention voted 370 to 8 for its proposed slate of delegates to go to the Republican National Convention.
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County conventions will select delegates to go to the state convention, which in turn selects delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
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Initially, the convention had been held in the first half of the year, ahead of San Diego's massive convention in July.
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Both Suffolk's post-convention poll and an NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist pre-convention survey had her up by significant margins.
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The first such convention started in San Diego more than 40 years ago: Today, the convention tops over 130,000 in attendance.
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"It is not my job as chairman of the convention to tell the delegates how to run their convention," Ryan said.
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Southern Baptist Convention does the right thing The Southern Baptist Convention finally did the right thing after doing the wrong thing.
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Wouldn't they make this Republican convention likely to be the most-watched convention or even prolonged political event in U.S. history?
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ET, President Trump will speak to the American Legion's 99th national convention at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nev.
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Stephen Colbert The comedian filmed a Democratic convention edition of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" from the convention floor Sunday.
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If Trump is still in the race then, we must learn the rules of a contested convention and a brokered convention.
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Our scenarios likely underestimate the potential health benefits of Minamata Convention controls in China, which is a party to the Convention.
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The Donald Trump National Convention in Cleveland (technically the Republican National Convention, but let's be real) wasn't really much for storytelling.
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The rules committee should send the proposal to the convention floor in Philadelphia and recommend that the convention delegates support it.
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He gave probably the best-received speech at the 2012 Republican Convention (as Obama did at the Democratic Convention in 2004).
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Murray also sits on the host committee for this summer's Republican National Convention and helped bring the nominating convention to Cleveland.
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And at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she made history, becoming the first transgender person to speak at a national convention.
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Utah's heavily conservative Republican convention attendees even backed Mr. Romney's opponent, Mike Kennedy, at the state's nonbinding nominating convention in April.
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" It was a sharp contrast with comments he made Saturday promising that the "Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention.
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These rules have no application to the "Standing Rules of the Convention" (Rules 220006-2202) that actually govern the 2628 convention.
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But, you know, remember this‑‑ THRUSH: And you were at the convention--as I recall-- STEIN: I was at the convention.
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Boston The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is New England's biggest, and The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority hosted 325 events last year.
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It takes 34 state legislatures to call for a convention, and 38 states to ratify any amendments proposed by the convention.
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We're 11 days away from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and 18 days until the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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In Manafort's initial role as convention manager, he was tasked with securing delegates for Trump ahead of the Republican National Convention.
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Chiang is not the only politician appearing at the convention, which is the largest comic book convention in the country. Rep.
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That group met this April in Florida and rejected a bid to change the rules of procedure for the convention, passing a draft of the convention rules that matched the ones put in place by the 2012 convention delegates.
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The data we have on convention bounces is noisy, but a number of examples suggest that when a party underperforms its expected convention bounce, the content of the convention, and its news coverage and commentary, may play a role.
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The convention has been overshadowed, for example, by controversy surrounding his wife Melania's convention speech - which included lines uttered by first lady Michelle Obama at the Democratic convention in 2008 - and the campaign's initial reluctance to admit the plagiarism.
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When I received my press credentials for the convention, they came with a warning that all WiFi networks at the convention and in nearby hotels should be considered "extremely hostile," which was to be expected at a hacker convention.
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Haley Barbour will run the convention's Permanent Organization Committee, which oversees the formal structure of other convention committees and the convention itself.
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McBride made waves at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 as the first transgender person to speak at a major party convention.
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Spokespersons for Mueller and Sessions declined to comment on Mueller's interest in Sessions' activities at the convention and other convention-related events.
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RELATED: Republicans shouldn't skip party convention, Ryan says Trump said Thursday he doesn't care if the former Republican nominees attend the convention.
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Dean Obeidallah: A great convention for Clinton If you were a Democrat, the 2016 GOP Convention could not have gone any better.
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GOP convention Donald Trump, a master of reality television, promised to hold the most entertaining political convention the nation had ever seen.
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Democratic convention goes global Clinton has been well supported during the convention by a series of speakers who have sparked international reactions.
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And they threatened to throw the convention itself -- suddenly rattled by Trump's polling bounce after last week's Republican convention -- deeper into disarray.
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"It is not my job as chairman of the convention to tell the delegates how to run their convention," the speaker said.
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Convention bounces don't mean much, but Trump put on an objectively whacky and low-rent convention and he got a huge one.
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The GOP suffered through a bumpy start to the convention and needs to change the dynamic before the convention clock runs out.
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And for the Republican National Convention in July, Trump entered the convention center silhouetted in bright white lights like a pro wrestler.
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"I just want clarity from the president of the Southern Baptist Convention about whether we condemn, as a convention, racism," he said.
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It happened in Williamsburg, Va., where my team at the Convention of States project organized a simulated Article V Convention of States.
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Thief spoke at the Republican National Convention over the summer, making him one of the few gay speakers the convention has seen.
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Snapchat says it will create Live Stories around the GOP convention this week and upcoming Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week.
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And in the political world, we're three days from the Republican National Convention and 11 days from the Dem convention in Philly.
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Though the city was host to the Republican National Convention in 2000, there hasn't been a Democratic convention in Philadelphia since 1948.
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Heather Middleton, a spokeswoman for the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau, said her city decided they could not make a convention work.
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John Kasich will speak at the NAACP's annual convention in Cincinnati on Sunday, temporarily departing from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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Because superdelegates don't officially vote until the convention, Sanders has pledged to fight up until the convention to convince superdelegates to flip.
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The 2202-member Republican National Convention rules committee is poised to have an outsized role at this year's GOP convention in Cleveland.
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MOTHERBOARD: During a presidential ballot at the convention, how are the voting results communicated from a state delegation to the convention secretary?
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In 2016, Mr. Giuliani delivered a prime-time address at the Republican National Convention, and Mr. Bloomberg at the Democratic National Convention.
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Depending on convention rules, Sanders is likely to have enough delegates to bring some of his signature proposals before the entire convention.
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He helped to manage the convention floor for Gerald Ford during the 1976 convention, when Ford was facing off against Ronald Reagan.
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The Republican National Convention has at times lacked something that every political convention needs, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan said Wednesday.
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Any plan would almost certainly require backing from a majority of the 2,472 convention delegates total on the public floor of the convention.
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We've already had one constitutional convention -- literally The Constitutional Convention, in 1787, which gave us the Constitution -- and there hasn't been one since.
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Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau said in a report it expects the convention to bring in between $250 million and $300 million.
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"I understand that many people here at this convention hall and across the country are disappointed," Sanders said at the Democratic National Convention.
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Should two-thirds of their legislatures call for a convention, Congress would have to accede to their demand: a convention they should have.
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It became clear Monday that the convention floor could erupt in anger if she gaveled the convention into session or sought to speak.
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It partnered with CBS to stream the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention, and it will soon host financial news from Bloomberg.
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"It's definitely going to be a contested convention," said Kimberly Tregoning, a Sanders delegate from Kalamazoo, Michigan who will be attending the convention.
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As Reince Preibus announced the day before the convention, one of Trump's first post-convention actions will be to reach out to Hispanics.
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For all the weirdness of the Trump convention, that basic dynamic held for the first two days of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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The actual convention institutions allow for the convention to choose someone who is not the delegate leader, and that's totally legal and legitimate.
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Some will stay in Houston's convention center; others will go to Dallas, where its convention center is being turned into a mega-shelter.
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Although North Korea is a party to the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, it is not a party to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Sanders' announcement comes a week after the Women's Convention received backlash for picking him as a speaker for opening night of the convention.
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The party's convention rules and policy platform are determined every four years by temporary committees comprised of a select group of convention delegates.
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He'll be visiting the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco for California's convention and James Madison University in Virginia for that state's convention.
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Critics of an Article V convention fear a runaway convention, in which appointed delegates pass amendments beyond those specifically stated in the application.
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Security is being enhanced for the Republican National Convention that begins in Cleveland on Monday, and the party is negotiating a convention platform.
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Convention organizers had expressed nervousness on Sunday about the specter of Ms. Wasserman Schultz appearing onstage at all during the four-day convention.
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They should receive passes to be on the floor of the convention and non-voting access to all convention proceedings and candidate suites.
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Delegates, campaign aides and convention officials used the platform at the Republican convention, and the company expects the same among Democrats in Philadelphia.
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" On Anthony Weiner being in the convention hall in bright red pants, calling Trump's convention "a Dumpster fire": "I think he's a pervert.
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It's the biggest convention center I've ever seen, bigger than the Las Vegas Convention Center, which has been called the biggest of all.
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To win on the first convention ballot, a Republican presidential candidate must receive a majority vote of convention delegates (at least 220006,2202 votes).
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Trump is the only candidate to reach the marker, but the threshold can be easily changed by convention delegates before the convention begins.
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All Nordic countries have ratified the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention).
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This rule significantly reduced the possibility of a brokered convention, because now most delegates' votes were spoken for in advance of the convention.
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During this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, some of the strongest anti-Clinton sentiment at the convention came from supporters of Sen.
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Uber will be an official partner for the Democratic National Convention but won't serve a similar function at the Republican convention in Cleveland.
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But enough committee members backed the effort to let them take the fight to the convention floor during next week's convention, participants said.
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Now, with the Republican National Convention over, it's the Hillary Clinton campaign's chance to take the national stage at the Democratic National Convention.
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On Monday night, it became very clear that Melania Trump's 2016 convention speech had lifted two paragraphs from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.
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It's very simple: Go to the Democratic convention, go to the Republican convention, and you'll see the same lobbyists paying off both sides.
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The delegates met Sunday evening, just as the convention ended, and selected State Party Chairman Kelly Armstrong to be chair their convention delegation and chose Republican National Committeeman Curly Haugland and RNC Committeewoman Sandy Boehler to serve on the powerful convention rules committee.
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Noisey: So, I spoke with Kerry yesterday and we were talking about how it's funny that you guys are at this wild pop culture convention while at the same time there's another, way crazier convention going on—the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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Canada is a signatory of The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol; The Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 and The United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988.
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One convention source said they have already added 100 new surrogates, a number that will increase to 250 by the time of the convention.
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The Democratic convention made history on Thursday: Sarah McBride, a transgender woman, became the first openly trans person to address a national party convention.
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" Before the Republican National Convention in July, they suggested that such protestors would be "manipulating Ohio's open carry laws to terrorize all convention goers.
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"It very well may be that somebody gets 1,237 delegates before the convention and then this whole open convention question is closed," Ryan said.
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Protesters have been a constant presence at this week's Democratic National Convention, bringing a rowdy element to the convention arena and the surrounding streets.
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Trump's convention choice: Bring the party together or blow it apart The list of confirmed speakers was released days before the convention kicks off.
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Vapes Are Banned At the Democratic Convention, Welcome to Hillary&aposs AmericaAre you going to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this coming week?
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Struggles to unify Inside the convention halls, both candidates had a loud and aggressive minority within their convention who were dissatisfied with the nominee.
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China ratified a United Nations Convention on the rights of people with disabilities in June 2008, enshrining the principles of the convention into law.
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As the Democrats head into their nominating convention in Milwaukee in July, they're facing a nightmare that hasn't happened since 1952: a contested convention.
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As the Democrats head into their nominating convention in Milwaukee in July, they're facing a nightmare that hasn't happened since 20163: a contested convention.
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The National Convention of the Oppressed-Black Unity Convention had Perk Plaza for the afternoon, for the first scheduled protest of Donald Trump's coronation.
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Last year, the Republican National Committee unanimously voted for Charlotte to host its party convention — the city's second major-party convention in a decade.
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Clinton's campaign has stumbled over that same period and her post-convention polling bounce finally crumbled, which is what post-convention polling bounces do.
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The third section (rules 240-403) were the rules that solely dealt with the convention and are called the "standing rules" for the convention.
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Second, the convention center is only miles from where Clinton expects Democrats will crown her the nominee at the Democratic National Convention in July.
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He is a delegate to the 2016 GOP national convention and will serve for the fifth time on the Convention Committee on the Platform.
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He is a delegate to the 2016 GOP National Convention and will serving, for the fifth time, on the Convention Committee on the Platform.
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The Democratic National Convention is slated to take place from July 22016 to July 22, 2700, almost two weeks earlier than the 22 convention.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), will resign when the convention closes at the end of the week.
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Philly airport workers to strike during Dem convention: Philadelphia airport workers will be going on strike while the city hosts the Democratic National Convention.
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Andrew Cuomo said in a Friday morning address at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a cavernous convention hall in midtown Manhattan.
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Trump had boasted last week that "no one would watch" the Democratic National Convention and hailed the ratings of the Republican convention on Twitter.
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And even as the team set out to win over convention players, Manafort exuded confidence that Trump would avoid a contested Republican National Convention.
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He encouraged voter registration during a speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention — and also appeared at the Democratic National Convention that same year.
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If not, then it could be a brokered convention, and that date would be in the middle of July, when the convention will be.
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The FAA has warned pilots to give the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia a 34.5-mile radius.
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Read "Melania Trump accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama during convention speech" Read "The Republican convention just kicked off in Cleveland — and anything could happen"
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During a speech at the 2016 Republican convention, Melania apparently plagiarized significant portions of a speech that Michelle gave at the 2008 Democratic convention.
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There are two paragraphs from Melania Trump's Republican National Convention remarks that look incredibly similar to Michelle Obama's 2008 speech at the Democratic convention.
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In the days leading up to the convention, people have also been waiting outside the convention center exercising their open carry rights. Cleveland. pic.twitter.
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Well, almost all countries' drug laws are shaped by three major international drug treaties: the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, the Convention on Psychotropic Drugs of 1971, and the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 3.43.
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The emblematic images of convention violence are from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago 26, when Vietnam War protesters outside the convention hall clashed with police in a violent struggle while, inside, the Democratic Party was riven by its own dispute over the war.
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So if this is the case, then the 2020 Democratic convention might be the first major party convention since 1952 to go to a second ballot on the presidential nominee — but it wouldn't really be a contested convention, with the outcome truly up for grabs.
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Really, in the space of about 10 or 12 minutes, Mike Pence turned a demoralized, dispirited, depressed, negative convention into an upbeat, optimistic, united convention.
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Trump floats sports-themed convention night Earlier this month, Trump said he wanted to have a night for sports heroes at the convention next month.
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Art Basel Miami Beach took place at the Miami Beach Convention Center (1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida) from December 5 to December 9.
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At this July's Democratic National Convention, Human Rights Campaign spokeswoman Sarah McBride became the first openly trans person to speak at a major-party convention.
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She joined other activists on the It Takes Roots People's Caravan last month, speaking outside of the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention.
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The results of the convention mean Nevada will send 20 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia for Clinton, plus 15 for Sanders.
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The photo was taken Monday outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, which held the organization Islamic Circle of North America's annual convention this weekend.
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"The contrast between Donald Trump's convention where he 'alone can fix it' versus Hillary Clinton's convention is that we are stronger together," the official said.
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But the Democratic convention was also not a convention only for the base -- vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine even made an appeal to disaffected Republicans.
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The new transit project, dubbed the LVCC Loop, will connect the Las Vegas Convention Center's New Exhibit Hall with other convention halls down the street.
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Talk of the bathroom bill has already led to about $66 million in lost convention business, convention officials from Texas' top cities told the committee.
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"There was no expectation that anyone other than convention attendees would be in the convention area," Michael Weaver, chief marketing officer, said in a statement.
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It is unclear why none of the convention staff realized "white elevators" might remind convention-goers of not-so-distant times when segregation was legal.
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The applicants are then pared down to a slate of 28 convention delegates and 28 alternates where 2,000 North Dakota state convention delegates then vote.
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Since the chances are growing of the Republican Party's having a convention fight to pick its nominee, a brokered convention could become a legitimate possibility.
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Balloons fill the air in Convention Hall in Miami in 1972, as President Nixon is nominated for a second term at the Republican National Convention.
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The GOP will decide between Charlotte, N.C., which hosted the Democratic convention in 2012, and Las Vegas, which has never hosted a political convention before.
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A People's PAC could be formally launched at the Democratic National Convention and promoted by advocates to a national audience throughout the convention and beyond.
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CONTESTED CONVENTION: The Hill's Jonathan Easley reports:Marco Rubio's campaign manager said he'd be "surprised" if the GOP nomination is wrapped up before the GOP convention.
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Nate It's pretty difficult to untangle the effect of the Khan story and the convention, since, well, the Khan story was part of the convention.
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To begin with, a convention for proposing amendments is a species of "convention of the states" — a kind of gathering with a long historical pedigree.
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Ryder acknowledged that the LGBTi issue was controversial, but said: "The spirit of the Convention ... is that everybody falls under the protection of this Convention".
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And every Monday, certainly from before the convention, like, let's say the month or so before the convention, to literally eight days before the election.
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The second asks voters to hold either a citizens-only constitutional convention or a "mixed" constitutional convention, including citizens and members of the National Congress.
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Green brought the dog back to life just recently, after the Republican National Convention used the meme to make fun of the Democratic National Convention.
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The DNC doesn't plan to return any corporate money that is donated to the convention regardless of the nominee, convention CEO Joe Solmonese told POLITICO.
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But like all convention rules, Rule 40(b) can be tweaked or scrapped entirely before the convention, leaving the qualifications for the nomination in flux.
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There's no real doubt that Melania Trump's Republican National Convention speech last night was partly plagiarized from Michelle Obama's Democratic convention speech eight years earlier.
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She's a delegate on the powerful 112-member Rules Committee of the Republican National Convention that dictates how delegates choose the GOP nominee at the convention.
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A weak attempt to still deny Trump the nomination had already failed on the convention floor more than 48 hours before Cruz took the convention stage.
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Ed Tomba, the city's deputy police chief and head of convention security, had previously told Reuters he was "very, very confident" in the city's convention plan.
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Jones, with ALEC, said that any successful petitioning of Congress would result in a "convention of the states" and not, specifically, a broad-sweeping constitutional convention.
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This year's convention might also be something of a spectacle if Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are slogging it out for delegates on the convention floor.
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The group typically meets a few days before the national convention to decide how the convention will operate -- to literally set the rules of the game.
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And if we don't, then we would say the chances of a brokered convention actually increase, and not many people are talking about a brokered convention.
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The rule was adopted after the 2012 convention as a way to prohibit outsiders who hadn't run in primaries from hijacking the nomination at a convention.
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We thought that when we left the Republican National Convention and arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention we would be somewhat in the clear.
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According to a Washington Post analysis, this convention likely has the fewest percent of black delegates attending than any other Republican convention in the past century.
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Netflix show host Chelsea Handler talks on stage at Politicon, "the unconventional political convention", at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, U.S., July 29, 2017.
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MNUCHIN: WELL I THINK THIS IS – OUR NUMBERS HAVE BEEN HUGE IN THE LAST WEEK, THEY'VE BEEN BIG INTO THE CONVENTION AND OUT OF THE CONVENTION.
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But the revelation comes after her speech at the Republican National Convention last week plagiarized parts of Michelle Obama's 2008 address at the Democratic National Convention.
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Nationally, the rate of firearm injury dropped from 23 per 22,228 on the dates adjacent to the convention to 22018 per 100,000 during the convention itself.
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Fallon said the U.K. would get out of the convention in future conflicts but would continue to respect domestic laws as well as the Geneva Convention.
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But there is one more big grassroots-versus-establishment clash remaining to be settled before next week's Democratic National Convention—or, possibly, during next week's convention.
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Institutional failure doesn't merely explain why racism and crackpottery have dominated the GOP convention, but why the convention itself has, relatively speaking, been an operational calamity.
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The Reagans play with balloons at the podium of the Republican National Convention in 1988 in New Orleans following President Reagan's address to the GOP convention.
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BitTorrent is planning 10 to 12 hours of election coverage throughout the convention, which will continue the following week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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He officially left Fairport Convention in 1984, although in 2007 he was part of a Fairport Convention lineup that reunited to perform "Liege & Lief" in concert.
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On the eve of the convention, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a congresswoman from Florida, announced that she would step aside as the DNC's chairwoman after the convention.
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One of the most regular rhythms of recent presidential politics has been the "post-convention bounce" that each nominee receives in the polling after their convention.
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At the 2016 Republican Convention, Melania Trump uttered the exact words that then-first lady Michelle Obama said at the Democratic Convention a few weeks earlier.
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While Cleveland shelled out tens of millions for security, a post-convention analysis found the convention led to a $185 million economic windfall for the city.
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A RNC Rule prohibiting binding must be adopted by the National Convention, to be effective at the 2016 Convention, to relieve delegates of their state binding.
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The convention statesFour states out of the remaining 20 break from the traditional primaries and caucuses held elsewhere by sending unbound delegates to the national convention.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Convention began with the ouster of the party's chairwoman, protests in the streets, disruptions on the convention floor and a torrential thunderstorm.
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Rules committee members are quick to point out that they have never changed the outcome of a convention since they first voted during the 1984 convention.
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In an odd TV special back in 2004, Slim Shady led the "Shady National Convention," a fake political convention hosted by Carson Daly and Vanessa Lachey.
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One of the more uplifting sections in Melania Trump's convention speech Monday night was virtually identical to a passage from Michelle Obama's convention speech in 2008.
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"We are not making a monetary donation to either convention, but will be providing convention coverage for our Fire TV and Twitch customers," said a spokesperson.
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As results show a divided Democratic party, the specter of a "brokered convention" or "contested convention," which is so routinely raised, might soon become a reality.
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The city is considering trying to turn the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, the largest convention center in the country, into a makeshift hospital.
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Hargrove produces many other major events, including the Democratic National Convention, and CNN has, along with other media outlets, worked with Hargrove in its convention coverage.
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From that point of view, we believe Milwaukee makes sense as a convention city for the Democratic National Convention because this is a politically important state.
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Paul Ryan, who as House speaker presides over the convention, would preside over that process — and his determinations on suspending convention rules could carry the day.
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"It was the convention committee we had to go through, people on the convention committee, because we're considered 'special press' because we're a nonprofit," Novak said.
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Convention spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said the Secret Service is serving as the point law enforcement agency to keep the convention, other events and the community secure.
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago is the most infamous example in modern history, but New York's Republican convention in 2004 drew some 100,000 protesters.
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Take the controversy over Melania Trump's partially plagiarized speech at the Republican National Convention — when Trump's publicity machine steamrolled not his opponent's convention, but his own.
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Currently, there are three treaties that may be a more important first step to address at the federal level: The United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961), the Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971), and the Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988).
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A potential complication to Mr. Trump's convention planning surfaced, providing the first indication that Mr. Cruz would not simply hand his delegates over: Mr. Cruz's supporters emailed pro-Cruz convention delegates on Sunday to urge them to attend the convention and take control of two key committees.
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There aren't many candidates who make a big comeback if they trail a few weeks after the convention, or don't lead after their own convention (although this year we won't have much time to figure out whether that happens because the Democratic convention comes right afterward).
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"Comic-Con is the largest convention of the year for San Diego," Copic told CNBC, noting that the convention attendance is far above the average of 5,000.
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Meanwhile, neither of his two remaining rivals has any mathematical chance of getting there before the convention, where they'll rely on a fight on the convention floor.
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The Democratic National Convention was supposed to be boring—a soothing antidote to the Donald Trump freak show that was the Republican convention in Cleveland last week.
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Price-wise, long weekends in Las Vegas — second only to Orlando in convention business, according to the meetings technology provider Cvent — are subject to the convention calendar.
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It was designed to clamp down on Ron Paul's insurgent campaign, but has the potential to block Kasich at the convention if adopted for the 2016 convention.
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"Everybody normally wants to speak at the convention," said Stuart Stevens, chief strategist to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential bid who was involved in organizing that year's convention.
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She was burned after parts of her speech at the Republican National Convention were revealed to have been cribbed from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech.
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The Democratic National Convention was thrown into some early controversy when internal emails between DNC officials were posted by the website WikiLeaks days before the convention began.
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Yet the whole convention represented "one big corporate bribe" where speakers denounced Citizens United while laughing off the possibility that massive donations to the convention influence them.
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In a smaller "hard zone" surrounding the convention hall, which is temporarily under federal jurisdiction, guns are banned, meaning delegates cannot be armed on the convention floor.
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Rules 240-2200 from the 22012 convention will be the set of rules the 2016 convention rules committee will look at to pass, modify or add to.
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Trump was formally nominated at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, while Clinton is expected to be nominated by the Democratic Party at its convention next week.
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In this July 18 photo, then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks around the convention floor before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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"If somebody wanted to do a convention every weekend, they could make more on the convention circuit than their episodic fee," Arrow star Stephen Amell told THR.
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But that amendment did not make it to the Convention floor when conservatives revolted and threatened to challenge this power grab on the floor of the Convention.
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They're just a few of the many big artists performing on the convention stage and in concert halls around Philadelphia during the four-day Democratic National Convention.
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Ms. Collins will call in from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and can answer readers' questions about Donald Trump, the convention itself or anything politics related.
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Priebus said he's been in touch with convention CEO Jeff Larson in recent days to ensure they're taking every precaution to protect convention goers and protesters alike.
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Of course, it's also possible that Mr. Trump will not get a convention bounce at all, reflecting perhaps the most disorganized, unpredictable and bizarre convention in decades.
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A group of several dozen motorcyclists calling themselves "Bikers for Trump" came to help convention-goers pick their way through crowds outside the fenced-off convention area.
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In addition to Mr. Giuliani, the Trump campaign and convention organizers have announced the names of several prominent convention speakers who were closely identified with law enforcement.
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Even if the two-thirds threshold were reached, a convention would probably face a court battle over whether the legislatures' calls for a convention were sufficiently similar.
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But planned walk-throughs of the convention site in Milwaukee have been delayed, according to multiple Democratic sources, and many convention organizing staffers are working from home.
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Monday's theme for the Democratic convention is "United Together," which, in addition to being somewhat redundant, could have just as easily worked at last week's Republican convention.
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