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State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones has been getting more email than usual.

Not from Nigerian princes or dubious web designers promising to jazz up his net life. Not even from actual Oklahomans asking Jones to audit and inspect some nook or cranny of government.

No, this email has been from fellow Republicans urging Jones to help them run the Donald Trump Express off the tracks at next week’s Republican National Convention.

“I’m getting on average 20 or 30 emails a day,” he said earlier this week.

As a member of the Rules Committee, Jones has a say in whether the convention throws open the nomination or sticks to script. Never in the Trump camp, he supported Ohio Gov. John Kasich during the primaries and was elected to the convention as a delegate for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

But he doesn’t think the Rules Committee or the convention will or should deny Trump the party’s nomination.

“The only chance he won’t be the nominee is if Donald Trump stands up before the convention and says, ‘I believe I can’t win, give the nomination to someone else.’ And that’s not going to happen,” Jones said.