It doesn't work like that.barnhart wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 7:53 am If I were the party bosses, I would wait as long as possible and then nominate a sacrificial lamb instead of P. Trump, count off 2024 as a loss and make a stand on principle, hoping for momentum in 2026 midterms to carry into 2028. I like Scott as the non-super rich guy who is least tainted by Trumpness.
The time for the party bosses (Senators, governors, etc.) to step in was November 2020 when they all could have congratulated Biden and told Trump and the public it was time to move on. Very few of them did so. As I recall, it was just Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and a few other centrists and known anti-Trumpers like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. Trump had the rest of them running scared.
The second time for the party to step in would have been during Trump's second impeachment for 1/6. They could have disqualified him from future elections by convicting him at that point. They chose not to.
Now it is far too late for the party bosses to do anything except watch. The primary schedule is set and the nomination process was decided in the last Republican convention. According to their own bylaws they have no ability or authority to change it now.