Anti-Trump delegate faction says it's raising cash, faces long odds By Tal Kopan, Tom LoBianco and Maeve Reston, CNN Updated

Republicans looking to stop Trump from winning the nomination at the GOP convention in Cleveland continue to organize They face long odds and have a short window in which to organize (CNN)A faction of Republicans is pinning a last-ditch effort to stop Donald Trump on a long-shot rules change at the national convention. Sunday night, GOP operatives trying to drum up an anti-Trump coalition held their second conference call in five days. Roughly 1,000 interested people were on the call, according to organizer Steve Lonegan -- up sharply from the roughly three dozen who were on a similar call last week. The goal is passing a rule at the Republican National Convention in July that would free delegates to vote their "conscience," negating any binding put in place by states' primaries. The chorus calling for a miracle to save them from Trump's nomination represents a real angst in the Republican Party about the presumptive nominee, who has suffered weeks of bad headlines and poll data since the end of the GOP primary. But while this appears to be the best-organized opposition effort so far to keeping Trump from winning the nomination in Cleveland, doing so is a nearly impossible task. Read more on www.CNN.com