Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event to announce Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., as the vice presidential running mate on, Saturday, July 16, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Topeka ? Kansas delegates to the Republican National Convention are showing little appetite for a struggling, last-minute effort to block Donald Trump’s presidential nomination, even though most of them are bound to back other candidates.

Some of the state’s 40 delegates take comfort in the conservative national platform that’s been drafted ahead of the convention, which opens Monday. Others contend that it’s simply too late — and foolhardy — to attempt to deny Trump the nomination he’s claiming by virtue of his victories in caucuses and primaries this year.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won the state’s caucuses in March, and 24 delegates are bound to vote for him at the convention, compared to nine for Trump. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has six delegates, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one. The state party’s rules require its delegates to back their candidates until the candidates formally release them.

But delegates interviewed ahead of the convention said they’ll support Trump in November, regardless of their current affiliations. They also said they expect Kansas Republicans to be united by their strong antipathy for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a state the GOP nominee has carried in every election since 1964.

“The thought of having Hillary Clinton is enough of a concern, I think, for a lot of people, including me,” said State Treasurer Ron Estes, a Rubio delegate. “We’ll support the Republican nominee.”

Kansas has shown a conservative contrarian streak in recent nominating contests. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won the state’s caucuses in 2008 and 2012 over the eventual nominees, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Cruz’s sweeping victory in this year’s caucuses would appear to make Kansas fertile ground for a late anti-Trump movement. However, state GOP Chairman Kelly Arnold, a Cruz delegate, said denying Trump the nomination would fracture the party nationally and put it well behind Clinton going into the fall. He’s opposing any effort to help the GOP insurgents.

“We would be so broken as a party, November wouldn’t even matter,” Arnold said. “That’s why we’re not doing that.”

Mary Kay Culp, executive director of the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life, one of the key players in state GOP politics, acknowledged ignoring emails from the anti-Trump movement to avoid being lobbied. She is a Rubio delegate and serves on the convention’s platform committee.

Culp believes Trump is bound by promises to appoint conservative judges, and she likes Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. She said strong and more detailed anti-abortion language in this year’s platform “does make things better.”

“You don’t always get your first pick,” she said. “The thing is, he’s definitely much, much better than Hillary, as far as our issue is concerned.”

Randy Duncan, a Salina businessman and the 1st Congressional District GOP chairman, is bound to vote for Cruz, reflecting the district’s caucus results. But he said he’s actually “a Trump guy” and gives him credit for bringing new voters into the fold. Duncan said he ultimately expects Kansas Republicans to “come together in the end.”

Added Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Trump delegate and his most prominent pre-caucus supporter: “Among the Kansas delegation, there is an absolutely correct perception that the fight is over and the party needs to get together.”