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GOP Delegates Strike New Effort to Stop Trump
From the Washington Post:
Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee.
The moves come amid declining poll numbers for Trump and growing concerns among Republicans that Trump is squandering his chance to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. Several controversies — including his racial attacks on a federal judge, renewing his call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States and support for changing the nation’s gun laws — have raised concerns among Republicans that Trump is not really a conservative and is too reckless to run a successful race.
Given the strife, a growing group of anti-Trump delegates are convinced that enough like-minded Republicans will band together in the next month to change party rules and allow delegates to vote for whomever they want, regardless of who won state caucuses and primaries.
I’m not saying this will work. But, technically, the delegates can change the rule and do whatever they want. But block the will of millions of voters and risking riots seems a pretty tall order.
Source: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2016/06/17/gop-delegates-strike-effort-stop-trump/
