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This story just knocks me out.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker is a Mississippi Republican who heads the Senate’s GOP campaign committee.<\/p>\n

His advice to senators facing tough re-election battles? Don’t go to Cleveland this summer for your party’s presidential nominating convention.<\/p>\n

What in the world … ?<\/p>\n

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U.S. Sen. John McCain of\u00a0Arizona\u00a0— the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee — is staying away. Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire aren’t planning to go, either. And get this. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, in whose state the convention will occur, isn’t sure he’s going to attend.<\/p>\n

Does this say something about what lies ahead for the GOP combatants and the delegates who’ll select the next party nominee?<\/p>\n

I’m wondering now if it means that the nomination for president of the United States will even be worth the fight.<\/p>\n

What in the world is keeping all these folks away? It might the threat leveled by GOP candidate Donald J. Trump that there will be “riots” if the convention chooses someone else to be the nominee. Who wants to be a part of such a melee?<\/p>\n

Chaos reigns supreme in this year’s GOP nominating fight.<\/p>\n

Tonight, to be sure, Trump did take a big step toward securing the nomination by scoring the big win in the New York Republican primary. He’s still a ways away from getting the required delegates he’ll need to win the nomination on the first ballot.<\/p>\n

If the fight goes to a second ballot or beyond, well, then the chaos is likely to erupt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the head of the Senate’s GOP campaign committee has issued fair warning to senators who might be in trouble: Stay away or you, too, may become a victim of the fallout.<\/p>\n\n

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This story just knocks me out. U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker is a Mississippi Republican who heads the Senate’s GOP campaign committee. His advice to senators facing tough re-election battles? Don’t go to Cleveland this summer for your party’s presidential nominating convention. What in the world … ? http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/276910-gop-campaign-chief-to-vulnerables-stay-away-from-convention U.S. Sen. John McCain of\u00a0Arizona\u00a0— the GOP’s … Continue reading GOP nomination fight becomes hazardous … for GOP<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,5647,2546,4209],"class_list":["post-14173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-convention","tag-john-mccain","tag-senate-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14177,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions\/14177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}