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Desperate GOP considers changing rules to deny Trump: ‘We’re going to get killed with this nominee’
June 9, 2016
Brent Johnson
TRENTON -- Some Republicans are renewing talks about trying to stage a coup at the GOP convention next month to deny Donald Trump the party's presidential nomination and field a replacement candidate, according to multiple reports.
The conversations come as Trump continues to face criticism from party leaders and lawmakers over comments he recently made about a federal judge's ethnicity.
Reacting to the uproar, some anti-Trump conservatives -- who have been trying for months to stop the billionaire businessman and former Atlantic City casino mogul -- are considering trying to change rules at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and persuade delegates to vote for someone else, according to a report by Yahoo! News.
"There is a rapidly moving train toward the convention to try to obstruct it at the convention," conservative radio talk show host Erick Erickson told the news website. "Trump in the last 72 hours has given hope to people who think it's now possible."
Another conservative radio talk show host, Hugh Hewitt, said on air Wednesday that the GOP nominating Trump is like "ignoring stage 4 cancer" and that the party "ought to change the nominee."
"Because we're going to get killed with this nominee," Hewitt said. "They ought to get together and let the convention decide."
Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist and longtime Trump critic told the Los Angeles Times that "what Trump has been doing, without knowing it, is giving an increasing number of Republicans a free pass to run like hell."
For a while during the spring, the goal of the "Never Trump" movement was to prevent the real estate magnate from gathering the 1,237 delegates he needed to clinch the nomination and force a floor fight at the convention.
But Trump reached that delegate mark last month and became the presumptive GOP nominee, seemingly ending such ideas.
And pulling off a coup now wouldn't be easy.
It would require the Republican National Committee's 112-member rules committee to vote by a simple majority to allow delegates to unbind and vote for someone other than Trump, according to a report by NBC News. Then, the entire convention delegation would have to approve the changes.
And then, at least half of the delegates would have to oppose Trump on the first ballot, according to a report by Bloomberg View.
Ken Cuccinelli, who worked for Ted Cruz's failed presidential campaign and now oversees an effort to influence the platform and rules at the convention, told NBC News that such changes won't occur.
"That's not going to happen -- at least among our people," Cuccinelli told the news network. "I will say clearly we are not participating, and we are dissuading people from any effort to change the nominating effort in the rules committee."
Trump in victory speech: I'll 'be your champion'
Trump sparked outrage earlier this month when he suggested that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing lawsuits against Trump University, might be biased because he is of Mexican descent and Trump wants to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.
Critics noted that Curiel was born in Indiana and accused Trump's remarks of being racist.
Trump said Tuesday that his remarks were "misconstrued" and delivered a speech later in the night calling for party unity.
Meanwhile, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a top Trump adviser, said the businessman is not racist.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/des...p-were-going-to-get-killed-with-this-nominee/
June 9, 2016
Brent Johnson
TRENTON -- Some Republicans are renewing talks about trying to stage a coup at the GOP convention next month to deny Donald Trump the party's presidential nomination and field a replacement candidate, according to multiple reports.
The conversations come as Trump continues to face criticism from party leaders and lawmakers over comments he recently made about a federal judge's ethnicity.
Reacting to the uproar, some anti-Trump conservatives -- who have been trying for months to stop the billionaire businessman and former Atlantic City casino mogul -- are considering trying to change rules at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and persuade delegates to vote for someone else, according to a report by Yahoo! News.
"There is a rapidly moving train toward the convention to try to obstruct it at the convention," conservative radio talk show host Erick Erickson told the news website. "Trump in the last 72 hours has given hope to people who think it's now possible."
Another conservative radio talk show host, Hugh Hewitt, said on air Wednesday that the GOP nominating Trump is like "ignoring stage 4 cancer" and that the party "ought to change the nominee."
"Because we're going to get killed with this nominee," Hewitt said. "They ought to get together and let the convention decide."
Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist and longtime Trump critic told the Los Angeles Times that "what Trump has been doing, without knowing it, is giving an increasing number of Republicans a free pass to run like hell."
For a while during the spring, the goal of the "Never Trump" movement was to prevent the real estate magnate from gathering the 1,237 delegates he needed to clinch the nomination and force a floor fight at the convention.
But Trump reached that delegate mark last month and became the presumptive GOP nominee, seemingly ending such ideas.
And pulling off a coup now wouldn't be easy.
It would require the Republican National Committee's 112-member rules committee to vote by a simple majority to allow delegates to unbind and vote for someone other than Trump, according to a report by NBC News. Then, the entire convention delegation would have to approve the changes.
And then, at least half of the delegates would have to oppose Trump on the first ballot, according to a report by Bloomberg View.
Ken Cuccinelli, who worked for Ted Cruz's failed presidential campaign and now oversees an effort to influence the platform and rules at the convention, told NBC News that such changes won't occur.
"That's not going to happen -- at least among our people," Cuccinelli told the news network. "I will say clearly we are not participating, and we are dissuading people from any effort to change the nominating effort in the rules committee."
Trump in victory speech: I'll 'be your champion'
Trump sparked outrage earlier this month when he suggested that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing lawsuits against Trump University, might be biased because he is of Mexican descent and Trump wants to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.
Critics noted that Curiel was born in Indiana and accused Trump's remarks of being racist.
Trump said Tuesday that his remarks were "misconstrued" and delivered a speech later in the night calling for party unity.
Meanwhile, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a top Trump adviser, said the businessman is not racist.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/des...p-were-going-to-get-killed-with-this-nominee/
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