Lobbyist Jack Burkman Friday is scheduled to open up his Northern Virginia home to what he says is a mounting number of Republican loyalists eager to bankroll a last-minute challenge to presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“You have no idea how many people want to write checks against him,” Burkman said.

The conservative firebrand counted himself among the party faithful desperately searching for a way to wrest control of the GOP away from Trump between now and the nominating convention in Cleveland.

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Although he publicly denounced Trump early on, Burkman insists that once the real estate mogul trounced the competition in the primaries, he, like House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, reluctantly fell in line.