Trump clearly the winner amid ‘rebellion’ at Republican convention

Cheers. Dissent. Chaos. Whatever that was that happened on the floor of the National Republican Committee Monday, the end result is that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.

“Rebellion quashed,” KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross said. “It’s all over.”

Tumult broke out on the convention floor after party officials adopted rules by a shouted voice vote, a move aimed at blunting anti-Trump forces seeking to derail the presumptive nominee. Delegates erupted in competing chants in a televised dispute Republican leaders had hoped to avoid.

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KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz explained that the RNC Chair called for a vote over the rules on whether delegates could be bound by state results or would be allowed to vote on their own conscience. There were yells from both sides but the aye’s were granted the win.

“The yes votes clearly were louder, whether that means they had as many votes, I don’t know,” Rantz said. “They could just be shouting louder. But I got the sense that there were more people there in support of passing the rule as it’s written and then moving on with this.”

Ross said he was told that the Anti-Trump protesters were led by Tea Party supporters.

“I was told by the delegates I talked to that this wasn’t necessarily a Trump issue, this was an issue of the grassroots, i.e. Tea Party types, against the Republican National Committee, which wanted to keep many of these primaries open so that both Democrats and Republicans could vote,” he said. “They didn’t like that. They wanted it confined to bonafide Republicans. They felt this was an establishment coup, but the establishment won anyway.”

KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson noted that a process that could leave so much confusion and doubt seems “a little wonky.”

“It’s weird to have a vote that’s people yelling ‘aye’ and ‘nay’ and he wraps up saying it’s the opinion of the chair that the aye’s have it,” he said. “Then what’s the point of a vote if it’s somebody’s opinion ultimately that determines yes or no on something?”

Rantz said, either way, Trump has won the day.

“Trump is going to be the nominee, there’s no doubt about that,” Rantz said. “And having actually been there, there were way more people in the delegation crowd than not who were cheering in favor of Donald Trump. So it does appear you can have as much unity as you can when you have somebody like Donald Trump winning the nomination. It wasn’t that many people visibly who were upset with the rules change.”

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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