Here are the Republicans who aren’t going to Donald Trump’s convention

[DonViejo]

The Republican National Convention starts next week in Cleveland, but quite a few key attendees will be missing.

This, of course, is because of Donald Trump. The billionaire tycoon has been frustrating and flustering prominent Republicans since the moment he emerged as a frontrunner late last year. Their disagreements with Trump range from the political to the stylistic to the personal, but many Republicans who find their candidate unsupportable have decided on the same course of action.

They just won’t show up.

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Republicans who have either hinted or confirmed they will not attend

Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida)

Rep. David Jolly (Florida)

Former Gov. Mitt Romney (Massachusetts)

Gov. John Kasich (Ohio)

Sen. John McCain (Arizona)

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire)

Gov. Brian Sandoval (Nevada)

Gov. Paul LePage (Maine)

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Former Vice President Dick Cheney

Former first lady Laura Bush

Former first lady Barbara Bush

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sen. Mark Kirk (Illinois)

Former Gov. Tom Ridge (Pennsylvania)

Former Sen. Tom Coburn (Oklahoma)

Former Gov. Luis Fortuño (Puerto Rico)

Former Gov. Bobby Jindal (Louisiana)

Rep. Trey Gowdy (South Carolina)

Rep. Mark Sanford (South Carolina)

Rep. Sean Duffy (Wisconsin)

Sen. Lindsey Graham (North Carolina)

Sen. Ron Johnson (Wisconsin)

Sen. Dean Heller (Nevada)

Sen. Jeff Flake (Arizona)

Former Gov. Jeb Bush

Former President George W. Bush

Former President George H.W. Bush

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http://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12173320/republicans-not-going-to-trump-convention

[FSogol]

1. Add: Texas Gov, Greg Abbott. n/t

[randome]

8. He gets the award for most innovative excuse to not attend.

He gave himself third-degree burns but I'm sure it was worth it.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[FSogol]

9. I'd give that to Jeff (I have to cut my grass) Flake. Has anyone said they have to wash their hair?

[Funtatlaguy]

2. It pains me to say this

but I gained a little.....a little....respect for Romney in the way he went after Trump.

[Her Sister]

3. Washing Hair or Bald Spot Days!

[unc70]

4. Lindsey Graham is SC, not NC

[monmouth4]

5. Former Governor Keane (R-NJ) Not attending...n/t

[rurallib]

6. Grassley had said he wasn't going - got to stay home and obstruct something

[procon]

7. None of the top tier A-list people want to be seen with Trump.

He can't even get the top leaders of his own party to show up at their own convention. Trump doesn't even have any celebrities on the playbill, no movie stars, no entertainers, no musicians, no millionaire donors... there's not even anyone willing to talk to a chair. The only sports figure he's signed up is the photo op guy who is only famous for posing with a football at the goalpost.

What's left? Trump is down to nepotism, so the national audience will have to sit through his creepy kids schlepping for their father.