“Anybody but Trump”: RNC Delegates seek to stop Trump at the Convention

Source: RedState | June 17, 2016 | Neil Stevens

Breaking: “Anybody but Trump”: RNC Delegates seek to stop Trump at the Convention

It’s one thing when Erick Erickson or Hugh Hewitt ask the Republican National Committee delegates to find some way of saving the party by stopping Donald Trump from getting its nomination.

It’s another when the Republican National Committee delegates themselves start engineering a way to nominate “Anybody but Trump.” And that’s what’s happening.

The Washington Post has talked to delegates who are part of a group of “dozens” who are looking to save the party by stopping Trump.

“This literally is an ‘Anybody but Trump’ movement,” said Kendal Unruh, a Republican delegate from Colorado who is leading the campaign. “Nobody has any idea who is going to step in and be the nominee, but we’re not worried about that. We’re just doing that job to make sure that he’s not the face of our party.”

The fresh wave of anti-Trump organizing comes as a growing number of Republicans have signaled that they will not support Trump for president. In addition, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who is slated to chair the Republican National Convention next month in Cleveland, said in remarks released Friday that House Republicans should “follow their conscience” on whether to support Trump.

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Mitch McConnell compared Donald Trump with Walter Mondale. In 1984 the Democrats nominated the man who lost 49 states, and in the process lost 16 House seats, while failing to retake the Senate. They even failed to knock off Rudy Boschwitz in Mondale’s Minnesota, the one state Mondale won!

Republicans might want to avoid a similar fate this year. Trump is whistling past the graveyard on this, if he thinks the party has no means to protect itself from a complete collapse in November. He claims there is “no mechanism” to dump him off the ticket, but there is.

The rules of the 2016 convention have not yet been written. It’s merely an assumption that they’ll be the same as last time, but there’s no requirement that the delegates do that. The delegates in the end may feel compelled to act, as a consensus grows that Trump is a disaster:

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    Woodcutter #7117

    “The delegates in the end may feel compelled to act, as a consensus grows that Trump is a disaster:”

    This may be a very interesting summer…

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