Donald Trump said Monday that higher ups in the Republican Party are working against him, and warned that they are still interested in finding someone to replace him at the top of the ticket.
“The bosses are trying to run it,” he said on an interview on CNN Monday morning. “It’s a rigged party. The bosses want to pick whoever they want to pick. The voters wouldn’t stand for it.”
The GOP’s front-runner also questioned “the purpose of going through the primary” due to his large leads over rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
“I’m leading in both votes and delegates. I’m leading by millions of votes. I’m leading by hundreds of delegates,” Trump said. He added of Cruz, “the voters don’t want him.”
“When you get 60 percent of the vote in some places, that’s a lot,” the billionaire businessman said. “I’m breaking 60 percent all of the time and I’m going against two people.”
Trump heads into Tuesday’s crucial primary in Indiana, where 57 delegates are at stake, with a lead of almost 8 points, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.
Indiana is seen as the last place to stop Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to be the GOP nominee and avoid a contested convention at the party convention in July. He currently has 996 delegates to Cruz’s 565 and Kasich’s 153.
