“We are kind of in a reorganizational phase,” says Rory Cooper of the Never Trump super PAC, noting that the group will have a better assessment after the convention.

“I think there is a really huge misconception about what the Never Trump movement is. Somehow it’s conveniently become shorthand for a third party candidate,” Cooper says. “But Never Trump is really a lot simpler than that. We don’t want the party to become an echo chamber of his beliefs.”

Cooper says the group is planning to focus on ways to protect the party from Trump, and to prepare it for what comes after the November election.

“There are certain elements yearning for an alternative candidate, but the vast majority exists to hold steady to the values that existed before Trump announced his candidacy,” Cooper says of Never Trump.