that “not a single swing voter in a single swing state will vote for our nominee if they choose to talk about the 2020 election being stolen,” according to attendees.famously rejected Trump’s entreaties to help him find enough votes to overturn his defeat, was not even invited to the convention, he said. When his name came up in various speeches and presentations, the crowd roundly booed him.
That rejection of Trump was certainly a minority view in the cavernous Columbus Convention and Trade Center, a former Civil War-era munitions factory where delegates milled about under rough-hewed beams in the usual fare of party activists — Uncle Sam costumes, glittering U.S. flag clutches and provocative T-shirts with slogans such as “Defund the FBI” and “These colors don’t RUN. They RELOAD.
. But after news of the federal charges broke last week, she became more resolved than ever to support the man she has already voted for twice, she said.“It’s just going to cause more people to think the system is unfair,” Shepard said. “It’s like a vendetta. It hasn’t been fair, and it’s not the way we’ve been used to doing things in America.”
“I’ve gotten calls from all our dear friends in the media, who I’m sure are here in full force today, calling me and asking me why I’m the only statewide official that was going to be at the convention today,” Jones said, prompting titters and outright laughs in the crowd. “I told them, I said, ‘I think they like me.’”