'Virtually impossible': RNC members say there's no chance of a convention fight against Trump
Source: NBC News
Feb. 2, 2024, 5:00 AM EST
LAS VEGAS In 2016, a group of delegates attempted a last-ditch effort to stop Donald Trump from securing the Republican Partys presidential nomination during rowdy proceedings on the convention floor. But dont expect anything like that spectacle at this summers Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, according to party leaders.
It didnt happen then, and its not going to happen now, David Bossie, the Republican National Committee member from Maryland and longtime Trump ally, told NBC News at the partys winter meeting here this week. There is no one who is going to attempt to do that. ... Theres none of that conversation that has happened in here. Not one iota of it.
Republican Party officials including some Trump critics said that after Trumps wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, the potential of convention upheaval is almost nonexistent after his allies spent years solidifying RNC rules and processes. In other words, someone like former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley the one remaining GOP candidate challenging Trump for the nomination wont have much luck hoping for a convention floor fight.
The rules could be changed, but it probably wouldnt be fair and I dont think it would pass absent a cement truck coming around the corner and killing the nominee, said Morton Blackwell, a member of the RNCs convention rules committee since 1988.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rnc-members-convention-fight-trump-2024-milwaukee-rcna136695
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(1,402 posts)He could stroke out, lose his marbles (even more), go to prison, lose his cash and businesses, be struck by lightning, etc.
It's too far out for anyone to predict. There seems to be a real, if faint, possibility that he clinches the nomination but is unable to compete. I imagine the R convention would end up looking like the '68 Dem convention.
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(8,678 posts)Wishing??