Trumps cult animosity shows sign up series#

In the November election, Unruh didn’t vote for Trump and left the Republican Party to register as an unaffiliated voter. The Smithsonian even requested Colorado’s sign from the convention floor for its historical collection. The moment defined the first day of the convention and stirred animosity that persisted throughout the four-day event. (Kathryn Scott, Special to The Colorado Sun) She led the “Never Trump” movement in Colorado in 2016 but says she’s no longer involved in politics. Kendal Unruh poses on her front porch at her Castle Pines area home with the dozens of political buttons she has attached to an American flag on Aug. The move spurred a shouting match on the floor between Trump supporters and others and the walkout. Her “Free the Delegates” movement drew enough support to force the issue at the convention, but Trump’s allies quickly quelled the rebellion and the delegates didn’t get the roll call vote needed to oust him. Kendal Unruh, a 2016 delegate from outside Castle Pines, emerged as a national leader behind the effort to change the party rules and unbind delegates to allow them to “vote their conscience” against Trump. The leader of the “Never Trump” movement in Colorado never made the conversion. (Kathryn Scott, Special to The Colorado Sun) The activist who led “Never Trump” camp is no longer a registered Republican A Colorado delegate credential from the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where Colorado’s delegates staged a walk out to protest the rules that helped lock the nomination for Donald Trump. “It didn’t feel weird to me this time because I’ve been supporting the president in Congress as much as I can, and I have been really supporting him as a state party chair as much as I can,” Buck said in an interview afterward. The difference between Colorado’s delegates now and then didn’t register with him. Like the state’s delegates from four years prior, Buck cited the president’s record of conservative judicial appointments, his response to the coronavirus pandemic, new trade deals and tax cuts as reasons to support his reelection. “The past four years, President Trump and Vice President Pence have made America great again in the eyes of the world so now our friends respect us and our enemies fear us,” Buck said from the convention hall, reprising the campaign’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Two days later, he told delegates to “suck it up” and support the party’s nominee.Īt the scaled-back convention Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Colorado sent six delegates, Buck cast the state’s 37 votes for Trump in a full-throated endorsement. On the convention floor in Cleveland, Buck shouted “Objection!” in response to party rules that locked in Trump’s delegate support.

Ted Cruz, who won all the state’s presidential delegates in the caucus. Ken Buck - who doubles as the Colorado Republican Party chairman - led the opposition in 2016 as a top supporter of U.S. And the change is evident at the top of the party.

A series of recent polls show about 80% of Colorado Republicans approve of the president, an increase from 2016. The turnabout in Colorado reflects the shift in national Republican sentiment after Trump’s takeover transformed the party into a one-man show and drew legions of unequivocal supporters. “I had it all wrong,” said Don Olmstead, another delegate from Colorado who vowed not to vote for the Republican nominee in 2016 because Trump didn’t have “any core principles.”

“We didn’t know how things would turn out four years ago,” said Andy Jones, a 2020 delegate for Trump who opposed his nomination in 2016.

Trumps cult animosity shows sign up series#