The Republican Party is going to die if it denies its presidential nomination to Donald Trump or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz after they’ve won the votes, conservative television and radio host Glenn Beck said on Sunday.
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“I think it would be very bad. You can’t disenfranchise people. We’ve all gone out, been passionate about it, voted back and forth on the people that we believe. I really think it has to be one of the two front-runners. I just think people would feel very betrayed,” Beck told “Meet the Press” host John Dickerson.
“That’s why people like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are doing well, because people feel very, very disenfranchised, and they’re angry, Beck said. “That’s something we don’t want to add fuel to. When [former Trump adviser] Roger Stone was calling and saying he was going to put out hotel room numbers, and saying he was going to encourage people to go to delegates’ hotel rooms, and called for the ‘days of rage’ … that’s really not a good thing.”
Beck, a firebrand conservative media voice, has endorsed Cruz for president and said he would never support Trump. Nonetheless, he said, either Trump should receive the nomination if Cruz can’t come close enough in terms of delegates to justify his nomination.
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“We’re going to live like brothers together or perish together like fools,” Beck said, reciting a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beck blasted a video recently produced by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that suggested voters want a candidate who would get along with everyone. The video was interpreted by many observers as a trial balloon for a possible bid by Ryan to sweep in and take the nomination for himself.
“This isn’t about a candidate coming up with some utopian future for us,” Beck said. “This is really about finding our principles. If they don’t find their principles, the GOP is going to be over. Disenfranchising people who have worked hard and gone out and campaigned for these people, I think would be a really bad mistake.”
