Trump: There will be riots if I’m denied nomination
Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “riots” would break out if the GOP tries to deny him the Republican Party’s nomination.
“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. And if we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 … I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically,” he told CNN.
“I think you’d have riots,” he added. “I’m representing … many, many millions of people, in many cases first-time voters.
“I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen,” the tycoon noted.
“The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries,” he said. “If you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before.”
Trump mentioned a hypothetical scenario in which he’d go to the Cleveland convention in July with about 1,000 delegates and a rival would show up with 500.
He said he believes he’ll capture the nomination before the convention and said he couldn’t imagine failing to get the party’s nod virtually “automatically” in such a scenario.
Trump, fresh off wins in Florida, North Carolina and Illinois, 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.
Trump, who lost in Ohio to Gov. John Kasich, also predicted a healing process in the GOP after the “war.”
“After we win, I think a lot of feelings will be soothed,” he said. “Once the battle is over, once the war is over, I think there really is a natural healing process. I’ve gotten along very well with people.”
With about 60 percent of the party’s total delegates already awarded, Trump has won about 47 percent. But if he continues to win at that same clip, he’d fall more than 100 delegates short of the 1,237 needed.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/16/trump-there-will-be-riots-if-im-denied-nomination/
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I hope the American people mean it.
Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “riots” would break out if the GOP tries to deny him the Republican Party’s nomination.
“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. And if we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 … I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically,” he told CNN.
“I think you’d have riots,” he added. “I’m representing … many, many millions of people, in many cases first-time voters.
“I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen,” the tycoon noted.
“The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries,” he said. “If you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before.”
Trump mentioned a hypothetical scenario in which he’d go to the Cleveland convention in July with about 1,000 delegates and a rival would show up with 500.
He said he believes he’ll capture the nomination before the convention and said he couldn’t imagine failing to get the party’s nod virtually “automatically” in such a scenario.
Trump, fresh off wins in Florida, North Carolina and Illinois, 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.
Trump, who lost in Ohio to Gov. John Kasich, also predicted a healing process in the GOP after the “war.”
“After we win, I think a lot of feelings will be soothed,” he said. “Once the battle is over, once the war is over, I think there really is a natural healing process. I’ve gotten along very well with people.”
With about 60 percent of the party’s total delegates already awarded, Trump has won about 47 percent. But if he continues to win at that same clip, he’d fall more than 100 delegates short of the 1,237 needed.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/16/trump-there-will-be-riots-if-im-denied-nomination/
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I hope the American people mean it.