For now, the favored strategy appears to be an attempt to block the convention’s 2,472 delegates from adopting a new set of party rules on Monday, rejecting the blueprint passed Thursday by the Convention Rules Committee. Anti-Trump operatives are cobbling together signatures from delegates in order to force a recorded vote on the rules package. They need the support of majorities in seven delegations to guarantee a vote. And if they succeed, their next challenge would be to furiously lobby the entire convention to reject the rules and add new language freeing them to rebel against Trump.

“I’m not going to let the Rules Committee think that they’re relevant,” said Kendal Unruh, a Colorado delegate and leader of the “Free the Delegates” movement. “I’m not going to empower them anymore. The power has been and will continue to be in the hands of the delegates.”…

But killing the rules package isn’t the only tactic for anti-Trump activists. Unruh is also working to force a convention-wide debate on her proposal to “unbind” delegates from their obligation to support Trump through a so-called minority report. Unruh attempted to pass this proposal last week, during debate in the Convention Rules Committee, but she found little support – only 12 members of the 112-member committee stood with her on the issue.

Dane Waters, a strategist with anti-Trump group Delegates Unbound, told Politico that the Rules Committee defeat — ensured by the Trump campaign’s aggressive organization and partnership with the RNC — has actually boosted his group’s effort. Delegates, he said, are furious at being shut down on a slew on conservative proposals, not just the unbinding effort, and they’re readier than ever to rebel against Trump.