There is growing talk on the
right of replacing Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for
president, and even chatter about a possible alternative.
As Trump has floundered over
the past week after questioning a federal judge’s impartiality because of
his Mexican ancestry, Trump’s critics within the GOP have stepped up their
efforts to thwart him.
Some anti-Trump
conservatives, who have tried for months to recruit an independent candidate,
have begun looking more closely at attempting to persuade delegates at next
month’s GOP convention to nominate someone other than Trump.
“There is a rapidly moving
train toward the convention to try to obstruct it at the convention. Trump in
the last 72 hours has given hope to people who think it’s now possible,” said
Erick Erickson, a conservative radio talk show host and one of
Trump’s most resolute critics.
“He’s starting to give
everybody hope that he should be stopped at the convention,” Erickson said. He
also cautioned that if Trump “cleans up his act, then I think that hope will go
away.”