So, if the RNC wants to DUMP TRUMP, how can they do it at this late stage?

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RNC BYLAWS experts needed. Just how would a late switch be pulled off, and would it require a second convention? I know there are a few states that don't allow switching the nominee once it's been decided - are there ways to get an exception to those laws?

[Mr. Morden]

Have all the Republican electors agree not to vote for him in the electoral college.

[LLR]

Assassination

[Arbitrage1980]

RNC can invoke rule 9B, which stipulates what would happen if the nominee were to die, withdraw, or some other emergency were to occur.  If the rule were to be implemented, the 168 RNC members (3 from each state/territory/DC) would cast votes.  Each member's vote represents one-third of the total delegates from that state/territory/DC.  Whichever candidate receives 1,237+ would be the new nominee.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I believe that when V.P. James S. Sherman died shortly before the 1912 election, the party designated  Nicholas Murray Butler to receive the electoral votes that Sherman would have received, even thought formally Taft was left without a running-mate (I don't thinkg there was time to replace Sherman with Butler on any ballots). Having Trump drooping out, but remaining on the ballot under the understanding electoral votes he would have received would go a party designate would be... funny. Kind of like Mel Carnahan remaining on MO ballot in 2000 with his wife as unofficial candidate to be appointed if he wins.

The closest thing we can get to the situation as discussed here was DNC voting to grant R. Sargent Shriver the VP nod in 1972, after Eagleton withdrew himself.

[Bojack Horseman]

Assassination

That's the first thing that came to my mind.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Too bad 😐,they allied themselves with Jeb, if it indeed comes down to Iowa or CO, then Kasich would have broken the blue wall and won Iowa which is so close in similarities to Ohio

[Bojack Horseman]

Apparently there's no need anymore.