There is one way, and one way, only, to Stop Trump and elect a conservative Republican as President. That way, the only way, is for individual states to name their Republican electors as being pledged to a candidate other than Trump.
Can this be done in 2016? It's happened before. Strom Thurmond was the Democratic nominee in SC, GA, AL, MS, and LA in 1948; they were the states he won. George Wallace was the Democratic nominee in AL in 1968; the Humphrey-Muskie ticket was the choice of the NDPA (National Democratic Party of Alabama), a predominantly black party. In 1948, the Texas Regulars were an independent slate of unpledged Democratic electors promising to vote for a conservative, and in 1960, conservative Democrat Harry Byrd was the Democratic candidate in AL and MS.
Why can't this happen now? If Texas, Oklahoma, the Great Plains states and the Mountain West states nominated, say, a Ted Cruz-Ben Sasse ticket as REPUBLICAN nominees. Could THIS happen?
CLINTON (263 EV)TRUMP (185 EV)CRUZ (90 EV)In Trump, we have a Republican who is in the GOP, but not of the GOP. He's a party-crasher; the biggest party crasher in history, and he's a party crasher both ideologically and tempermentally; he has no loyalty to Republican officeholders, and the partisanship of his organization is singular. Eisenhower was something of a party-crasher, but he was Eisenhower, the man who saved Western Civilization, and the GOP was far more desperate in 1952.
Could this work? It would require Hillary to get under 269 EVs, but it's possible. Is it legally possible? I don't know the laws of every state, but if even only Nebraska and Utah nominated the Cruz-Sasse ticket as their Republican nominees, the Congress could select them.
Would they? It would be the NEW Congress that would pick the new President if it came to that, but how would the conservative GOP Reps and Senators view the opportunity to ditch Trump and elect a true conservative? It would be audacious, but once the President was elected, what could be done?
Is this viable? I mean, if Trump is as bad as some folks say, why wouldn't this option be on the table? Is it even possible, legally, in this day and age?
