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I'd call it ungrammatical.
It's fine for headline English. It means that the Republican party is afraid Mr. Trump is becoming an unstoppable "zombie candidate" without enough support to win the general election.
#5:
Should Mr. Trump lurch into the convention so fatally compromised with general election voters and a sizable faction of Republicans, it could make it easier for the party to wrest the nomination away from him. But it would also make the consequences of failing to defeat him all the more ruinous if the specter of choosing a seemingly unelectable nominee does not deter Mr. Trump’s supporters.
The paraphrase #5 says "if the specter of choosing a seemingly unelectable nominee does not deter Mr. Trump’s supporters". Does it mean GOP would choose a new candidate to substitute Trump, yet this new candidate still has no hope to become the President?
so don't feel badly if you struggle to understand it.
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