Preibus voices concern about Trump's campaign direction 02:28
Story highlights
- Trump has secured the Republican nomination
- But some Republicans are looking for ways to remove him
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's continued stumbles led The Wall Street Journal Monday to suggest that if he couldn't shape up by Labor Day, it might be time to "turn the nomination over to Mike Pence."
Replacing
candidates on the ticket is fairly unprecedented, though Democrats
replaced then-Sen. Thomas Eagleton on the 1972 ticket, following the
revelation he used electroshock therapy.
Any
effort to remove Trump as the Republican presidential nominee would be
far-fetched. But here are the two ways that Trump could be replaced at
the top of the ticket.
Trump removes himself
If
Trump wanted out, he would have to alert the Republican National
Committee, which would then have to convene and decide who to replace
him with. The 168 members of the RNC would then vote to approve a new
nominee.
But
that's only the start. The new nominee would have to be certified for
the ballot in each state, and each state has separate deadlines, most of
which are before or around Labor Day.
GOP removes Trump
A small group of anti-Trump
Republicans are mounting a long-shot bid to remove Trump, arguing that
the party rules allow the RNC to take him from the ballot.
"We
are supporting any and all efforts to look at the options of ensuring
that a nominee is there who can beat Hillary Clinton in November," said
Dane Waters, a veteran GOP operative who is supporting this most recent
effort to oust Trump.
Free the
Delegates, which Waters is a part of, failed in its bid to block Trump
in Cleveland. It has also launched the GOP Accountability Project and a
"Recall Trump" effort -- all focused on this long-shot effort.
Under their proposal, anti-Trump Republicans would use the party's "Rule 8" and "Rule 9" to call a special meeting of the RNC and then vote to fill the vacancy at the top of the ticket.
Rule
8 allows for a minimum of 16 RNC members from 16 separate states to
petition for a special meeting of the RNC. And Rule 9 allows for the
party fill a vacancy at the top of the ticket.
But there's no rule that says the party can simply take its nomination away from TrumpUpdated 1321 GMT (2121 HKT) August 16, 2016
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