By Sophia Kunthara and Emily L. Mahoney | Cronkite News
Arizona GOP leaders called for unity Monday as they kicked off the Republican National Convention, just hours before the party erupted into chaos over a procedural rules vote on the floor.
“Let’s clearly state our purpose here this morning, it’s to put a Republican back in the White House,” Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said at the state GOP delegation’s breakfast meeting. “It is to a put a vice president who is a Republican back in Washington. And those Republicans are Donald Trump and Mike Pence.”
But disorder was the order during the opening session of the full convention, as a typically noncontroversial motion to adopt the rules lead to a shouting match.
