MILWAUKEE — ANALYSIS — It’s not easy showing up to a four-day party to nominate and support Donald Trump, knowing that you can’t cast your delegates for Trump. But that was the challenge of the Washington, D.C., Republican Party this week in Wisconsin.
Republicans kicked off the convention early Monday afternoon by formally nominating Trump for president a third consecutive time. For two hours, state after state stepped up to the microphone, heaped praise on the former president, and dedicated their delegates loudly for Trump, followed by loud applause around the arena. But that wasn’t going to work for D.C., considering former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won the district’s presidential primary with 63 percent.
For their disloyalty, District delegates were relegated to last in the long roll call vote, but still had to try and match the moment without being able to explicitly support Trump.
