Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

The chairman of the Kansas Republican Party said Monday that he is not taking part in recent efforts to change party rules in a way that could deny Donald Trump the presidential nomination.

“At this point I’m not on board with this,” Kelly Arnold, the GOP chairman, said. “We held a caucus, invited Republicans to come out and vote, and I think it would be disingenuous to unbind our delegates that represent the results of our Kansas caucus.”

In addition to chairing the state party organization, Arnold serves on the Rules and Resolutions Committee of the Republican National Committee, where efforts are reportedly underway to push through a change in the rules that essentially would allow delegates who are bound to support a candidate to “unbind” themselves if they believe doing so is a matter of personal conscience.

The latest efforts began late last week after Trump made a number of controversial statements, including his call for a ban on Muslim immigration, his comments about a judge of Mexican descent presiding over a civil fraud lawsuit against him, and his wavering positions on gun rights.

Republican voters in Kansas decided how their delegates will be allocated when they voted in the March 5 caucuses. Kansas will send 40 delegates to the convention: 24 pledged to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz; nine for Trump; six for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; and one for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Under state party rules, those delegates remain bound to their candidates unless the candidate releases them, which none has so far.

Arnold said he has not spoken with any other Rules Committee members, although several have reached out and tried to contact him.

“For us, as a committee, to throw away the will of the Republicans in America – all of the caucuses and all of the primaries would become a moot point,” Arnold said. “Just to say, ‘Well, those are no longer valid anymore,’ I’m not convinced that’s the right direction to go. Things could change, but I prefer to stick with the will of the people.”

The GOP National Convention begins July 18 in Cleveland. But the RNC’s Rules and Resolutions Committee will meet the week before that, starting July 14, to finalize its proposed rules for the convention. A final vote on those rules is expected to be one of the first items of business when the full convention begins the following Monday.

That Rules and Resolutions Committee is made up of 122 people: two each, one man and one woman, from all 50 states, the five U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Besides Arnold, the other Kansas member of the committee is Beverly Caley, a state party official from the First Congressional District. Caley did not respond Monday to an email request for comment.

“I would not see this as a likely option to happen, at least within the Rules Committee,” Arnold said. “A lot of outside people are talking about this.”