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New Rule Proposal For GOP Convention To Block NeverTrump Movement

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A member of the Republican National Convention’s rules committee proposed a rule change Thursday that would officially block the #NeverTrump movement on the convention floor in Cleveland.

“This rule would take politics out of the lawmaking process, and focus on unity so we could defeat Hillary Clinton in November,” Solomon Yue, the delegate who proposed the rule change, told NBC.

The proposed rule change would replace the word “temporary” in the 2012 rules with language that would carry the same rule structure from the 2012 RNC convention into the 2016 convention in Cleveland.

In addition, the proposal states that any modifications to the rules in the 2016 convention do not apply in 2016, but will apply in the 2020 RNC convention.

Former Ted Cruz backer Ted Lonegan is behind a push to “free the delegates” from the primary results in the state. The most ambitious plan includes trying to lift requirements from delegates to vote a certain way on the first ballot of the convention. There is another plan in place, dubbed the “morality clause,” which would enable a delegate to vote for someone else if they cannot vote for a candidate because it goes against their own moral code.

The proposed rule will need to be approved by 25 percent of the 112 members of the rules committee in order to get to a vote on the floor of the convention. It is possible that this Yue’s proposal could be approved along with the rules designed to stop Trump, but if both were approved, it would mean that the rule changes wouldn’t be official until the next convention in 2020.

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