Trump Critics Urge RNC To Replace Trump In Special Meeting

[sofa king]

43. Not in your honest organizations, they can't.

In Republican-land, it only takes about 112 people, plus another vote by 56 of the same people:

RULE NO. 12
Amendments
The Republican National Committee may, by three-fourths (3/4) vote of its entire membership, amend Rule Nos. 1-11 and 13-25. Any such amendment shall be considered by the Republican National Committee only if it was passed by a majority vote of the Standing Committee on Rules after having been submitted in writing at least ten (10) days in advance of its consideration by the Republican National Committee and shall take effect thirty (30) days after adoption. No such amendment shall be adopted after September 30, 2018.


https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_Standing_Committee_on_Rules

The Standing Committee on Rules is not the temporary Rules Committee that operated at the Convention. It sits within the 156-member RNC itself. RNC needs 10 days to call a meeting, but I would argue that the Standing Committee on Rules can propose an amendment on the same day that the meeting is called, because it's a Standing Committee. So if a meeting were called tomorrow, they could officially have a new candidate in as little as 40 days, and a functionally active one in 11.

(Also note that the RNC has an all-important amendment which allows any state delegation (of three people) to move to suspend the rules at any point, which needs to be seconded by seven other state delegations.)