Trump Making Case To Gop Insiders Amid Chaotic Rally Scene

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 3:37am

(AP) — Donald Trump took his outsider campaign to the inner sanctum of California's Republican party, making his case directly to the GOP's state party convention even as angry demonstrators shadowed him outside in a possible harbinger of the controversy he will bring as the nominating process shifts toward the nation's most populous and diverse state. Trump came to make his pitch as the nominating calendar moves toward its end-game in California, which with 172 delegates at stake on June 7 could decide the GOP presidential nomination. [...] Trump's speech got an icier reception from the party veterans and donors who sat just beneath the stage, separated from the rest of the room by a rope. All three candidates are looking to galvanize supporters, sway undecided party members or poach from rival campaigns at the convention. Police in riot gear and on horseback pushed the crowd back and away from the arena; one Trump supporter had his face bloodied in a scuffle as he tried to drive away. There have been pushes toward moderation, but the group tends toward conservative leanings and favors calls for free markets, tax cuts and shrinking the size of government. The state party's platform defines marriage as between a man and a woman, and wants the Supreme Court's affirmation of abortion rights reversed. Kersti Buchanan, 70, a retired translator and party activist from Mendocino County who backs Kasich, was shocked at all of Trump's supporters -- and by the candidate's speech itself.

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