Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says that if the GOP tries to deny him the party’s nomination even if he’s within reach of sufficient delegates at convention time, “We’d have riots.”
Trump tells CNN “Newsday” he’s brought large numbers of people into the party — “The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries,” — and he says “if you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before.”
He tells anchor Chris Cuomo, “I wouldn’t lead it,” but said it could happen.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a primary night press conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club’s Donald J. Trump Ballroom March 15, 2016, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
Trump cited a hypothetical scenario where he’d go to the Cleveland convention in July with roughly 1,000 delegates and a rival would show up there with 500.
He said he believes he’ll nail down the nomination before the convention and said he couldn’t imagine failing to get the party’s nomination virtually “automatically” in such a scenario.
Trump said “I don’t even want to think about” what he’d do if he’s in such an advantageous position but still does not become the nominee.
— AP
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