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Mcconnell has been doing, look, you wanted him out of the race. we had a replacement candidate. now he's looking at maybe we'll kick it to the ethics committee. sometimes nothing comes from that and we try to move on. >> right. i think it's a sign that mitch mcconnell has exhausted all of his options in this race, to sarah's point. they know he's going to be on the ballot. he could very well win and could be their colleague. but i think what changed this week was that endorsement from donald trump. i talked to republicans in the state. that was a shot in the arm to help him over the finish lin...

So clearly the allegations are serious enough that republicans are instantly not even waiting to determine whether or not these allegations are true. they are just saying if true we have to dump him. brooke, we are now looking into the process by which if indeed roy moore either by himself said he's dropping out or the party withdrew his nomination, there is no way to remove his name from the alabama ballot. so what would happen then if he was a dropped out candidate ks his name would still appear on the ballot, but the state canvassers would not count any votes registered to him. so any repla...

New york has 95 votes and three rnc committee members. if all three members agree on a replacement candidate, say they got behind vice presidential candidate, mike pence, he would get all 95 votes. if they those a different candidate, then those 95 votes end up being split. they are vague about how they would be split, but they will be split. this process repeats in every state in the nation. a replacement needs to get a majority to be the nominee. again, rnc members telling cnn today, this couldn't work because early voting is already started in some states and donald trump is on the ballots....

Convention this summer in cleveland. for instance, new york has 95 votes, they have three national committee members. if all three republican national committee members were to agree on a replacement candidate, say mike pence. pence would get all 95 of the votes. if those three members chose a different candidate, those 95 votes get split. then that system, it's a little vague exactly how that split would happen. we do know that each state delegation would repeat this process, a replacement would need to receive a majority of the votes from the states across the country to become the nominee. ...

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