The Best-Case Scenario For Never Trumpers In Cleveland

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The Federalist: The Best-Case Scenario For Never Trumpers In Cleveland

A long-shot and unlikely effort could see a different candidate take the stage next week at the Republican National Convention. Here’s how.

By Gabriel Malor JULY 13, 2016

Let us get something out of the way up front: Donald Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee for president in 2016. Although he only garnered a plurality of primary votes, Trump has been the presumptive nominee since May 3. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has declared it so.

 

But this does not have to be. A long-shot effort could see a different candidate take the stage next week at the Republican National Convention. Here’s how.

 

The Republican nominee for president will officially be chosen by the delegates at the national convention in Cleveland. Assuming everyone who is supposed to show up does, 2,472 delegates will attend, having been selected by various means according to their state and territory party bylaws. The only rule controlling whom these delegates must vote for when it comes time to nominate the Republican candidate for president is the rule they choose for themselves at the beginning of the convention.