Donald Trump said Tuesday that it would be a terrible idea for a brokered convention to settle the Republican nomination if he fails to win enough delegates to clinch it.
Trump was asked on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning if he thought it was wrong to have a brokered convention if he was leading in the delegate count but was short of the 1,237 votes needed to win outright. “Yeah, I sort of do,” Trump replied.
“I think that whoever is leading at the end should sort of get it. That’s the way that democracy works,” Trump said. “I don’t know that that’s going to happen. But I’ll tell you, there are going to be a lot of people that will be very upset if that doesn’t happen. I think that would be pretty unfair.”
Trump’s rivals — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — are each hoping to prevent him from reaching the delegate threshold by winning different state’s delegates in hopes there would be a brokered convention in Cleveland in July. Their best chances are in Florida and Ohio, the home states of Rubio and Kasich that hold winner-take-all contests on March 15.
.@realDonaldTrump: A contested convention would be unfair.https://t.co/73Lfh0tiGE— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 8, 2016
Trump said he opposed the idea that the nomination would need to be hashed out by party leaders, especially after he’s helped to bring out record voter turnout in the early voting states.
“There’s life now in the Republican party,” Trump argued. “It bothers me in the sense that it’s really not fair.”
