by Brendan Trainor
On the Trump train Diana Orrock of Las Vegas is a two-term Nevada representative on the Republican National Committee (RNC). She was on the convention Rules Committee that met Thursday, July 14. Her goal was to help quash the NeverTrump movement’s last ditch attempt to derail the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican Party presidential nominee. Juanita Cox from Storey County has been active in Republican Party politics for decades. This year, her long-time activism was rewarded with several positions at the national convention. One was as a representative on the Platform Committee. Her goal was to write the issues of rural Nevada into the platform. Her language regarding the sage grouse is now in the platform. Diana and Juanita went to Cleveland to make sure no one was able to stop the Trump nomination. Diana spent hours that day, as she put it, grinding down the proponents of the “Conscience Clause” rules amendment, the NeverTrump
attempt to unbind delegates from the primary votes so they would not have to vote for Trump on the first ballot. Diana’s hard work helped kill the Conscience Clause. There was also a movement, led by Ted Cruz supporters, to remove Nevada from its status as a “carve out” state— that is, one of the first states to hold a presidential nominating event. Orrock believes carve-out status following only Iowa and New Hampshire in primary order is the only thing that keeps candidates coming here to learn our issues. Cruz wanted Utah to take Nevada’s place, because Utah is a true red state, and also pro-Cruz. If he runs for President in 2020, an early Utah primary win could give him momentum. Nevada is purple, not consistently red, which is why Nevada is a swing state. The Trump campaign killed that rule, and so Nevada will keep its early primary status. After all, Trump has a hotel casino in Las Vegas, not Salt Lake City!
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Orrock wrote on Facebook, “I am, to date, the only RNC member to publicly endorse Donald Trump for President back in September 2015. I want the man who puts America first, who isn’t a member of the [Council on Foreign Relations] or the Skull and Bones Secret Society, who never apologizes for America, who didn’t take funding from superPACs and [New World Order] globalist manipulators, who I want representing me. I want the man who is rarely, if ever, politically correct and who is right on the issues of illegal immigration and the refugees. I want the man who was voted for by over 14 million voters in their caucuses and primaries against 16 other candidates. I want Donald J. Trump as my next president and I will never apologize for supporting him.” Trump supporters speak a language you do not hear in Washington or on CNN or even Fox. Did you ever hear Dana Bash talk about the CFR like that?
Does Anderson Cooper think much about Skull and Bones? Does Wolf Blitzer ever mention the NWO? People like Orrock and Cox do not even trust Cruz, because his wife works for Goldman Sachs. Their beliefs may be received via an Alex Jones radio conspiracy filter, but the language is translatable to more mainstream political speech. It means they are tired of Bushism. They are tired of global financial meltdown, of corporate bailout, of the “invade the world, invite the world” neocon mindset. I don’t know if Donald J. Trump is the Hercules who can clean the Augean Stables of Washington DC, but Orrock and Cox and most Nevada Republicans believe he is. Ω
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