2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dem Convention is a Week after GOP [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)There is one and only one way the RNC can get rid of Trump and its simple and also nearly impossible.
The rules committee meets at the beginning of the convention to determine the rules for the convention on all kinds of things including how the delegates vote. They could institute a rule that effectively disqualifies Trump from the nomination. Something like, "to receive delegate votes, you have to have held an elected office as a Republican."
So, fine, they institute this rule. Simple right?
Slight problem.
For the rule to be accepted and put into force, a majority of the delegates to the convention have to approve it. That doesnt sound so bad right? Here is the problem, guess who has won 2/3rds of the delegates to the convention? Trump. And the people who are those delegates were selected by Trumps campaign for their loyalty to Trump.
For Trump to be pushed out, his own delegates would have to abandon him en masse. And we would likely hear that something like that was afoot long before the convention started.
No one would like that scenario more than me. I would camp out there just to watch it unfold. But it is extraordinarily unlikely.