Republicans started circulating a petition that calls for the Republican National Committee to allow a meeting that would attempt to replace Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Executive Director of the GOP Accountability Project Regina Thompson acknowledges the effort is a long shot, but emphasized the push was important to avoid an election day loss.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” Thompson said. “Donald J. Trump is a disaster, his post-convention behavior has been deplorable.”
Trump remains 10 points behind Clinton in the most recent poll, well outside the bounds of a margin of error. Clinton received her bump after the Democratic National Convention, as well as the ongoing feud with father of fallen soldier Khizr Khan.
Republican Party rules allow members to replace the candidate in the event of “death, declination, or otherwise.” Critics say that this wording allows the Party to replace Trump based on the scandals the embattled Republican nominee started in the weeks following his nomination.
In order to force RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to schedule a meeting on the matter, Thompson’s petition needs 16 signatures from RNC members, each signature from a different state. After those signatures are obtained, then Priebus has 10 to 20 days to convene a meeting of the Republican National Committee to vote on the nominee.
“This is the same story over and over again,” RNC spokesperson Sean Spicer told the Associated Press. Never Trumpers attempted a coup on the floor of the Republican National Convention in July.
After the group gained enough signatures to force a vote on the proposal to free delegates from the results of their state’s primaries, RNC leadership ignored the petition and went straight to the vote that awarded Trump the nomination.
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