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Republicans talked about him in hushed tones along hallways, in line to get coffee, even as they washed their hands in the restroom — though they rarely uttered his name from the microphone.
Donald Trump didn’t actually attend Thursday’s GOP powwow in Hollywood as his rivals had a day earlier. But no one could deny his presence.
It wasn’t only because Trump’s newly hired political hands, Paul Manafort and Rick Wiley, hung around the Diplomat Resort & Spa to privately assure Republicans that the presidential front-runner’s campaign is becoming more organized and traditional ahead of Trump’s likely nomination.
Even the parts of the day that weren’t about Trump were about Trump.
The most anticipated session of the Republican National Committee’s three-day spring meeting took place Thursday afternoon. It was a dry discussion about the obscure rules that govern the party’s quadrennial presidential convention.
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