The first draft rule proposed for this year’s Republican National Convention would put an end to the "Stop Trump" movement by effectively cementing Donald Trump as the GOP nominee, NBC News reported Thursday.
The new rule would restrict alterations to the current guidelines until after the convention, putting a halt to anti-Trump forces that are aiming to pass a rule that would allow delegates to vote against Trump regardless of primary outcomes.
"This proposal would take politics out of the rule-making process and focus on unity so we could defeat Hillary Clinton in November," Solomon Yue, an Oregon delegate who serves on the convention’s rules committee, told MSNBC.
Yue is submitting the rule through the RNC’s formal "amendment proposal" process. It states that "any amendments" to the GOP rules will not "take effect" until the 2020 National Convention.
If passed, it would eliminate efforts intended to derail Trump’s momentum, including a proposed "conscience clause" that would free delegates from having to vote for the business mogul.
Yue’s amendment will have to win a majority of the 112 Rules Committee members to pass. Delegates will vote up or down for the proposal ahead of the July 18 convention.
