Bumpy GOP Convention Ride Ahead?

Is the Republican Party anticipating a floor fight in Cleveland? That's how I read the Trump campaign's out of the blue firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.  It will be seen by many insiders to mean that the hoary, appallingly corrupt, veteran Washington DC insider Paul Manafort won the low level war that has been simmering inside the Trump campaign the last few months. Manafort likes to take credit for corralling the delegates needed for Jerry Ford to beat out Ronald Reagan in 1976, and earlier this year Trump hired him to line up convention delegates for his campaign.  Unlike the 42-year-old Lewandowski, the 67-year-old Manafort also has a better working relationship with the Republican National Committee.  His reputation is also somewhat less combative than Lewandowski's, whom many political insiders and media people felt picked unnecessary fights. Manafort has been involved in most GOP presidential contests over the last 40 years. In the off...(Read Full Article)