Political Party Rules for $1200: What happens when Trump folds or else is found guilty? [View all]

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By this I mean that he either is taken out of the race due to gross incompetence, has a very public "moment" in which he clearly loses the capacity to continue however bizarrely to run, or he is found guilty of criminal or civil charges which make it impossible for him to continue. As much as that may sound wishful, or even CT to some of you I fully expect one of these conditions to occur quite soon. The writing is SO on on the wall.

When it happens someone high up in the GOP will have to do something. I'm wondering what will be done and who will it be done by, or at least who will be done by it? I don't see them taking the ball and going home. IMO too much is at stake for them not to have a visible candidate waving the GOP banner even if its been shredded.

What happens to the GOP candidacy for President? Does it go to the next highest primary vote count (Cruz)? Does the party leadership declare Trump incapable (or some other legalistic term) and appoint the candidate of their choice arbitrarily, regardless of the primary results or other "due process&quot whatever that may amount to in current Republican party parlance)?

What becomes of the funds and personnel gathered by the Republican Party to run the GOP presidential campaign on the ground? What happens to the money, if any remains, that Trump has collected to run his campaign?

I would prefer that we stick to the politically possible rather than the fantastic, even though Trump appears to have destroyed that boundary.

Cheap shots will not count, nor will obvious slurs. They really will try to salvage something from this and I'd like to see if we can figure out what they might do since that may change the direction and content of the campaign in BOTH parties.