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No, under Republican rules the nominee DOES NOT TAKE OVER. He's running for President, not RNC dictator.

The party is then supposed to marshal the resources necessary to run the campaign, and identify "LEGITIMATE" elements (peeps, money) to which various tasks may be assigned.

The REAL Republican party is composed of over 50 state parties ~ which are each separately incorporated under various state laws with various differences.

Any effort by the national committee to impose delegate selection rules on the states must be resisted every time it's attempted. The national committee has only the power to establish the requirements necessary for a state party to be affiliated with the national.

The renewal and restructuring that is needed will have to come up from the states ~ and if they find the RNC is no longer satisfactory, they can easily switch their affiliation to the NEW RNC ~ but I"d advise not doing that until you get your guys jobs in the new regime ~ he's got several hundred appointees so you might want to get in on the goody bag first. Then change affiliation.

That will initially look like party fragmentation but it's really not. This is much more on the order of replacing UL standards for a competing European standard for your electrical gear ~ nothing more. But it will get you what you want as your GOP-e folks begin to disaffiliate from your own state and county party committees.

A slightly more revolutionary way to handle it is from the bottom up where the county committees rebel against the state committee and form a competing NEW REPUBLICAN state committee and sign up with them.

The objective is to totally displace useless GOP-e agents and elements while maintaining sufficient structure to run candidates in coming elections (which is your primary purpose). You can do it top down from the state committee, or bottom up from the county committees ~ and at some point with a national insurgency once you reach a tipping point. Two big times this happened ~ (1) 4 years before the Civil War with the Whig demise, and (2) as a wrap up to the voting rights laws in the 1960s insurgent state committees were recognized by the Democrat national committee, and allowed to replace them for Presidential runs, and then state runs.

The third time is R I P E to happen and it's encouraging to see it happen so quickly with Texas!