CLEVELAND — A last ditch effort effort by anti-Trump delegates to derail the nomination of the New York businessman was downplayed by his Massachusetts campaign chair, but underscored the strange and fractious nature of this convention.
After what Massachusetts Republican National Committeeman Ron Kaufman described Monday morning as a week of "trench warfare" to get a rules package through the committee he co-chaired, Trump critics tried to force a full floor vote on the rules in hopes of defeating them and adopting reforms that might unbind delegates to vote against Trump.
On a postcard perfect summer morning, sitting at a picnic table beneath a large scrub pine Nathan "Nate" Nickerson, the hearty and high-toned proprietor of Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar, gets animated and even agitated at the thought of ever more "government intrusion" affecting his business and livelihood.
Arnold's is located off Route 6 in Eastham on the Outer-Cape. Like many small businesses, a place like this is where old-school values and new world realities intersect. To say things have changed in nearly 40 years of ownership would be a massive understatement.
