“Ousting Trump would be legally possible, but practically it’s impossible at this point,” Randy Evans, a member of the Republican National Committee’s Rules Committee who helped write the rule on replacing a candidate, told ABC News. “It’s not going to happen.”…
Removing Trump from the ticket is made more complicated by the fact that early voting has already begun in several states, and a majority of ballots have been printed. But these issues can be resolved. Ballot access expert Richard Winger told ABC News there is precedent for reprinting ballots late in an election season. And if ballots aren’t reprinted, voters could go to the polls with the understanding that though they are voting for Trump on the ballot, they are really voting for another person who’s hypothetically replaced him.
Another roadblock is that many state laws set deadlines for the parties to certify their nominees and that deadline — which varies state to state — has almost certainly passed in the vast majority of states since it’s typically either or between 90 and 60 days before election day, said Professor Richard Briffault, Columbia University.
The situation becomes trickier if the RNC wants Trump to resign, but he refuses.
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