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California GOP leaders will consider ousting two state party members who are leaders of an anti-Trump group supporting the presidential candidacy of Democrat Joe Biden, according to interviews.

Conservative members of the party plan to submit a resolution arguing that GOP strategists Mike Madrid and Luis Alvarado, members of the Lincoln Project, have violated party bylaws and should be stripped of their status as delegates to California Republican Party functions.

“Go join the Democratic Party. You don’t get a warm seat at our convention. You don’t get a vote at our convention holding those views and taking those actions,” said Harmeet Dhillon, one of California’s two representatives on the Republican National Committee.

Dhillon said party members started discussing plans to disqualify the pair in recent days. Some members of the state party may not vote for President Trump, she said, but Madrid and Alvarado’s active and public support of Biden and opposition to Trump and some GOP senators crosses a line.

“It’s the active fomenting for the opposite side that violates party discipline and party unity,” she said.

Madrid, one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project, laughed when he heard about the effort.

“I’m glad they’re focused on the right things 100 days from the election,” said Madrid. “God bless them.”