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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump will complete his nationalist populist takeover of the Republican Party—a hostile one—here this week at the Republican National Convention.

The Montana congressman who served in Navy SEAL Team 6 told Breitbart News he is thrilled about Donald J. Trump’s strong relationship with House Republicans, Trump’s prospects in November, and about his own address at the Republican Convention Monday.

Former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly talked about the security challenges of the upcoming Republican National Convention on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM.

Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos is set to speak at the Citizens for Trump rally in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, along with a variety of other conservative icons.

Trump-resistant and election battling Republicans including two former Presidents, two former Republican nominees, and several former 2016 presidential hopefuls are offering up excuses for why they will not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week, notably among them a break with a history of former Presidents attending their party’s convention.

Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter will hold a joint book-signing event with Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, also known as “The Dangerous Faggot” at the GOP convention in Cleveland next week.

A billboard promoting the faith-based film God’s Not Dead 2 that features a pro-religion slogan has been barred from going up at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this month.

CLEVELAND, Ohio—Republican delegates in Cleveland drew a sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats on Monday, pushing sharp restrictions on federal power over land and aggressive domestic energy production as vital to both the economy and national security during the Platform Committee debates ahead of the full party gathering next week to nominate the GOP’s standard bearer.

The city of Cleveland can thank LeBron James and the Cavaliers for freeing them from the shackles of not winning a professional sports championship for 52 years.

The president of the Cleveland Ohio police union warns that cops and convention goers are “sitting ducks” at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The City of Cleveland is ill-equipped to handle the thousands of professional leftist, Black Lives Matter, and other protesters and there is just under a month to go before the convention.

An anti-Donald Trump rap-rock supergroup consisting of members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill are threatening to “cause a ruckus” in July at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

A top official in the suspended presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) told Breitbart News that the senator’s campaign organization is deploying operatives to this weekend’s Georgia Republican State Convention, part of the senator’s effort to build a bloc of delegates at the Republican National Convention in July.

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is reportedly eyeing one of Cleveland’s large stadiums for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in July, where the nominee is officially selected.

Sen. Marco Rubio is not only going to go to the Republican convention that will nominate Donald Trump as the presidential nominee, he would be willing to speak for his former rival and release his delegates to him. “My sense

New York-based artist Spencer Tunick — famous for his massive nude photo shoots — is organizing a large-scale nude exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio during the week of the Republican National Convention.

Sen. Ted Cruz speculated on CBS’s Face the Nation that if he wins the nomination on a late ballot at a contested convention in Cleveland, “Donald [Trump] may do everything he can to encourage riots.”

The city of Cleveland, Ohio has bought insurance in anticipation of large scale rioting at this summer’s Republican National Convention, Shane Ferro reports at the Huffington Post. He also begins to lay out a media narrative that Republicans may to blame for some potential violence.

Wyoming Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis predicts a successful day for Ted Cruz on Saturday as the state convention selects the remainder of their delegates to represent the state at the national Republican party convention in Cleveland.

Former California Republican Party chairman Tom Del Beccaro told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is “better positioned” to win the state’s primary June 7, thanks to superior organization and the fact that only registered Republicans will be able to participate.

Cleveland resident and conservative marketing and fundraising strategist Matt Palumbo thinks his city has made great strides in development over the past two decades, but he told Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon that Cleveland is going to have its hands full when George Soros “rolls in his dream team of protesters,” including Black Lives Matter and others, during the Republican Convention in July.

Ted Cruz wrapped up the remaining 13 Colorado delegates on Saturday at the state Republican Party convention, winning every pledged Republican delegate from Colorado to the Republican National Convention.

Lee Stranahan, the lead investigative journalist for the Breitbart News network, predicts that the GOP is headed for “a Civil War inside the Republican national convention and another kind of Civil War, a race war, outside.”

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters on Monday that the establishment’s idea to “parachute in some white knight” other than himself or Donald Trump is nothing but a “fevered pipe dream” that would cause a “revolt.”

Sen. Ted Cruz scooped up another 18 of his preferred delegates on Saturday in North Dakota, bringing the the 2016 Republican presidential candidate’s weekend delegate haul to a tentative 24.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz gained six delegates in Colorado on Saturday.

Federal and local officials are gearing up to provide security for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer, with roughly 50,000 attendees expected at the event.

As a planned Donald Trump rally in Chicago was canceled Friday night, leftist protesters online wasted no time in taking a victory lap for the free-speech shutdown.

If you are Donald J. Trump, you are not very excited about the idea of a “brokered convention.” Aside from falling short of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president outright, the way delegates are chosen, and the nomination process itself, are not ideal for someone running an outsider assault on the party.

A Black Lives Matter activist who was part of the Ferguson riots posted a visual guide to urban riot wear in both English and Arabic on Twitter.

The political analysts at CalBuzz, a California-based political news website, report that the Republican Party elites are so terrified of Donald Trump winning the nomination that they are prepared to wage a scorched-earth campaign to deny him the delegates he needs to secure a majority before the party convention in Cleveland this summer.

After a long and controversial investigation, grand jurors in Cuyahoga County chose not to indict the Cleveland police officers who were involved in last year’s fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old with a toy gun.

Stephen Koff, Washington Bureau Chief for the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been trying to interview Democrat Senate candidate Ted Strickland about his views on gun control in light of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

Cleveland Police Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback gave statements—released Tuesday—in which they claim 12-year-old Tamir Rice put them in a must-shoot situation by lifting his shirt and reaching into his waistband instead of showing his hands.

Several GOP presidential campaigns are openly contemplating the increasingly likely possibility that a 2016 nominee won’t be selected before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in late July. If no candidate secures enough delegates by the time of the convention, then what would happen is what’s called a “brokered convention”—at which time things could get truly interesting.

When it was time for three homeless veterans to be laid to rest, with no loved ones to serve as pallbearers, six Detroit high school students stepped forward, setting up a program similar to one they learned about in Cleveland.

A long suffering Ohio football fan has paid homage to the many “quarterback casualties” endured by the Cleveland Browns by erecting a “quarterback graveyard” featuring faux gravestones of the nearly two dozen quarterbacks that have come and gone since 1999 at FirstEnergy Stadium.