As Republican Donald Trump roils the GOP establishment with controversial comments like his remarks about 'Mexican' judge Gonazalo Curiel, prominent former members of Texas Senator Ted Cruz's campaign team are publicly calling for a 'revolt' at the GOP convention to strip the nomination away.

'Our delegates have an obligation come July to do what's right for the Republican Party, not just anoint Donald Trump,' Cruz's New Jersey state director Steve Lonegan told CNN Tuesday.

'I would love to see a revolt,' Lonegan continued. 'And what I'm seeing right now, it's time for the Republican Party to get some backbone and stand up against this guy.'

'It's time for a #DelegateRevolt!' he tweeted this week. Other members of Cruz's team have been calling for similar tactics.

Supporters of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign are still searching for ways to keep Donald Trump from getting the GOP nomination at the Republican convention

Former Cruz New Jersey director Steve Lonegan is calling for a 'revolt' at the GOP convention

Bob Vander Plaats, a prominent Iowa conservative who co-chaired Cruz's campaign told NBC that 'everything's got to be on the table' including letting delegates pledged to Trump to buck him anyway, the Washington Examiner reported.

Iowa radio host Steve Deace told his listeners, 'You can end this and it's on you to do so. The rules permit you to do so.You have a choice to make: You can suffer the wrath of Trump's cult now, or you can suffer the wrath of the American voter later.'

Conservative host Hugh Hewitt, who held an attention-grabbing interview during the primaries where Trump flubbed questions about world leaders, wants the Republican National Committee to prevail on Trump to get out.

The effort to dump Trump is being fueled by Trump's latest controversial comments

'I think party ought to change the nominee,' Hewett said on his radio show Wednesday. 'Because we're going to get killed with this nominee. I have never said. that i waited until after the primary was over. I stayed Switzerland to the end,' he continued.

'The Republican National Committee needs to step in and step up and talk to him about getting out of the race,' Hewitt added.'They ought to get together and let the convention decide.'

Otherwise, he warned, Hillary Clinton will win the presidency and the Republicans could lose Congress.

'She's gonna be president unless Republicans change their nominee. When the dust clears we will have lost the House, we will have lost the Senate, we will have lost governorships.'

Cruz backer Bob Vander Plaats wants everything 'on the table'

The calls for Trump's ouster come after a primary season where he dispatched with 16 rivals and dominated the entire campaign season. No one came close to beating him in the delegate hunt, and Cruz dropped out after realizing there was no way to get more delegates through the primary process.

Cruz ended his presidential run with a series of blistering attacks on Trump.

'This man is a pathological liar,' Cruz said. 'He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.'

He termed Trump 'a narcissist at a level that I don't think this country has ever seen.'

Since that time, he's mostly stayed out of the fray, other than brief comments after he formally pulled out of the race.

The call for finding a way for pledged delegates to ignore the will of the voters who sent them to the convention comes as GOP leaders are fuming over some of Trump's latest controversial comments, including saying Judge Curiel couldn't issue fair rulings in a case involving Trump University because of his Mexican heritage.

House speaker Paul Ryan called the comment the 'textbook definition' of racism.

Trump's polling against Clinton has improved since he sewed up his party's nomination, but Clinton may have turned a corner in her own campaign with slashing new attacks on Trump as President Obama begins an effort to try to persuade Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to end his primary campaign against her.