A few hours before the Republican Party officially awarded the nomination to Donald J. Trump, several dozen prominent Latino delegates, reporters, and others met, over coffee, to consider their conundrum.
But one particularly prominent Republican delegate from the state of New York has decided to skip the climactic night of his party's nominating convention.
Ultimately it shows how petty Canadian politics can be, and sheds a bit of light on how poorly our country's most prominent political leaders delegate their human resources.
Most prominent among these is the delegate and superdelegate bloc affiliated with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's two largest teachers' unions.
But, critics might allege, his cakewalk to Cleveland has been complicated by the unforced error of selecting, among others, a prominent white nationalist as a delegate to the Republican national convention.
At this year's constitutional assembly, he was prominent among those trying to intimidate delegates, particularly women.
Some prominent Republican lawmakers, running as Bush delegates, lost when Mr. McCain carried their Congressional districts, a blow to their prestige.
Corey Kilgannon of The New York Times asked some prominent New Yorkers where they would take delegates to see the real New York.
