With the Republican National Convention one week away, Donald Trump’s opponents are launching a long-shot bid to deny him the party’s presidential nomination.

State Republican leaders predict that revolt will fizzle later this week.

“The reality is, they don’t have the votes,” said Jonathan Barnett, a member of the rules committee and a Republican National Committee member from Siloam Springs.

Although the convention officially begins July 18, hundreds of top Republican officials are already arriving in Cleveland to take care of last-minute business.

The 112-member platform committee, which formulates the party’s policy positions, will gather Monday.

The 112-member credentials committee, which resolves disputes over delegate selection, will gather Friday. This year there are few disagreements to settle.

The 112-member rules committee, which determines the process for running the convention, begins its work Tuesday. This is where “Dump Trump” forces will launch their attack.

Under current rules, nearly all of the 2,472 convention delegates are bound to vote for the candidate they agreed to represent. Typically delegates are apportioned based on a candidate’s performance in individual states.

Trump, the top vote-getter in the primaries, has won more than 60 percent of the delegates. He needs a simple majority to clinch the nomination.

To stop the presumptive nominee, opponents would need to pass a rule so the delegates would no longer be bound.

Barnett predicted that the “free the delegates” movement won’t get even one-fourth of the votes in the rules committee, the number necessary to issue a minority report and force a showdown on the convention floor.

“They don’t have the votes on the rules committee to change the rules. They don’t have the delegate count that they say they do. … They can’t even decide among themselves who their candidate should be,” said Barnett.

Anti-Trump forces will raise objections, but they won’t alter the outcome, he said.

“It’ll be interesting to watch, but I’d say half of them will back off pretty quick when they realize they can’t get it done,” he added.

Other Arkansans in Cleveland this week also say it’s unlikely the anti-Trump campaign will be successful.

“I fully anticipate 110 percent that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when we leave Cleveland in a couple of weeks, that the people of America have spoken, that the state has spoken,” said Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a member of the platform committee and a Trump delegate. “I do not anticipate any rules changes that would even allow room for someone else to run or to be considered.”

Jonelle Fulmer, a state Republican National Committee member and a member of the credentials committee, said delegates are honor-bound to keep their word.

“I just have a hard time believing that that many people would be willing to overturn the votes of millions of primary voters. I just can’t see it,” the Fort Smith activist said.

Republicans who don’t want to vote for Trump “should have made that decision before they signed a pledge saying they would vote for Donald Trump,” she said.

John Nabholz, a Conway businessman and a Trump delegate who serves on the platform committee, agreed.

“Freeing the delegates … I don’t see any chance of that happening,” he said.

Nabholz said that once the effort fails, he hopes Republicans can unify and focus on the fall election.

“Trump has the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the convention, and he’s been given a wonderful opportunity to do that, and I hope at the convention, he can bring everybody together,” he said.

Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Doyle Webb, who serves as the co-chairman of the credentials committee, was headed for Cleveland on Friday and could not be reached for comment.

But earlier, he said there was little interest in blocking Trump, “definitely not in Arkansas and definitely not from anyone that I have talked with.”

“I hear an overwhelming majority who want to win this election and want to nominate Donald Trump as our nominee to win this election,” he said. “I think that when the votes are taken at the convention, that the party will be as unified as it has ever been and that we will be on a good course to elect the next president of the United States.”