Newly Named RNC Rules Committee Is Unlikely To Lead Revolt Against Trump

FILE - In this June 18, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks in Las Vegas. Trump's campaign is cycling $6 million into his companies through use of his properties; mea... FILE - In this June 18, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks in Las Vegas. Trump's campaign is cycling $6 million into his companies through use of his properties; meanwhile, Trump has been on an urgent fundraising quest. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) MORE LESS
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Once Donald Trump reached the necessary number of delegates to win the Republican nomination outright, it was always improbable he could be replaced as the GOP’s nominee at the Cleveland convention.

Now, a new report from CNN reveals those chances just got a lot slimmer. The RNC Rules Committee –the body tasked with setting the nomination rules at the convention–is stocked full of party stalwarts who have shown little interest in the past in bucking the rules and giving delegates the chance to vote for whoever they like –unbinding them– on the first ballot.

Without a major change, it is hard to imagine how Trump would ever lose his nomination despite some calls to unseat the unpredictable nominee.

One rules committee member, Virginia National Committeeman Morton Blackwell, told CNN that unbinding delegates on the first ballot was little more than wishful thinking at this point.

“My father used to say, ‘Anyone can get his name in the newspapers if he’s willing to take his pants off in public,'” Blackwell told CNN. “So there’s going to be coverage of it, but it’s fantasy to think any of these rules are going to be changed.”

The rules committee will meet to set up the rules for officially selecting the Republican nominee. The rules will be voted on and require a 57-person majority, according to CNN. Then, they will be approved on the floor at the convention by delegates.

Still, advocates for unbinding delegates say they plan to keep pushing. We will see how that goes.

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  1. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    That whoosh you heard was Rinse heaving a sigh of relief…

    With strains of Please Mr Custer, I don’t wanna go looping in his head.

  2. RNC Rules Committee issued this statement:

    we can’t lead a revolt because after desperately trying we couldn’t find anyone more revolting…

  3. “My father used to say, ‘Anyone can get his name in the newspapers if he’s willing to take his pants off in public,’” Blackwell told CNN
    Trump’s political strategy in a nutshell.

  4. They can’t lead a revolt because they don’t have enough soldiers to lead the charge. Like most thugs, wanting to unseat the presumptive nominee of their party was always a fool’s errand once tRump reached the magic number. Most of these guys on TV claiming there was an outside chance they could do that, were all talk anyways.

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