Do you think Trump's nomination is locked in?

[canetoad]

Would a faction of the GOP organise a coup and unveil an 'August Surprise'?

My understanding of the nomination process may be flawed, but he's not the nominee until moved and voted at the convention?

[RainCaster]

1. He's da man

The GOP is all in for DFT.

The few rare exceptions are funding things like the Lincoln Project. There's not enough to force a coup, and if there was, who could they nominate that would have a better chance?

[NanceGreggs]

2. And if they did ...

... what's left of Trump's 'base' would immediately turn on the Republican party for pushing their "best pResident evah!" off the ticket.

Once again, the GOP finds itself between a rock and a hard place - ironically located in the corner they've painted themselves into.

[Locutusofborg]

3. The Republican nomination is locked up

Donald Trump became the Republican presidential nominee on March 17 after securing a majority of pledged delegates. He currently has 2.043 delegates and he only needed 1,276.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

4. A nightmare "August Surprise" would be

a Pence-Ivanka ticket...

I don't think that could happen, but we have seen stranger things.

[Doreen]

5. That might prove harder to happen than you think.

It would need mothers approval.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

8. Thank you for my first smile of the day.

I needed that.

[beachbumbob]

6. no change from trump, not going to happen and file in conspiracy bin with all the other nonsense

[bluecollar2]

7. The tea party

Wants trump...

Assholes want trump


Therefore it is safe to say it will be trump..

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Yes

They've come this far. They're all in now and I think that they know it. And they probably know that replacing him at this late juncture would be a big mess for them as well. Maybe some of the *smarter* Republicans might want to dump him but there is no mechanism for that to happen. He has no primary challengers(?) and the Republicans in many states canceled their primaries to help ensure Trump challengers couldn't gain much traction.

[Aristus]

10. No. Once again, the GOP is never, ever going to abandon Trump. Individuals, maybe; but not the party

But the GOP is thrilled to have the guy who will hammer every issue on their platform like no other Republican has done in forty years.

Trump is the poster child for their squalid, vile, slimy, filthy, inhumane, anti-American political platform.

They'll never, ever give that up.

If Trump loses in November, the RNC will just get a pick-ax, a front-loader, and an oil drill, and go prospecting for someone even lower and more reprehensible than Trump; and there was a time when I wasn't sure that was possible. But the "Fuck Your Feelings. Trump 2020!" crowd turned me around on that one...

[Andy823]

11. I think trump has some really good

dirt on many of the GOP members of the House and the Senate. If they dare to stand up for the country instead of him, he will spill the beans. Sadly the GOP cares more about them keeping their power than they do about the damage trump is doing to this country.

[ibegurpard]

13. No

It's simply that this is what the Republican Party has degenerated into.

[DrToast]

12. As long as Trump wants it, he will be the nominee

Trump is more popular than anyone in the party.

There will be no coup.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. No

Unless he bails, he's the nominee.
And the odds of him bailing are almost as low as the nomination being pulled.