Donald Trump feels like he’s running against his own party less than three weeks before he’s set to arrive at the Republican National Convention as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
“It’s almost, in some ways, like I’m running against two parties,” the billionaire told conservative radio host Mike Gallagher in an interview Thursday morning.
Trump’s admission comes less than 24 hours after he railed against a handful of his Republican primary opponents who’ve withheld their endorsement of him due to concerns about his rhetoric and policy prescriptions.
“I have guys out there and if you really think about it, they’re really sore losers,” he said during a rally Wednesday night in Maine. “They say it was the roughest campaign ever in the history of Republican politics, but what you do is you go to sleep for a couple of days and you wake up and you honor [the loyalty pledge].”
Still, the divide between Trump and many in the GOP could get worse before it gets better.
Following his comment Thursday morning about running against the GOP, the businessman jetted off to New Hampshire, where he is slated to deliver a major policy speech on free trade — an issue on which he and most Republican Party leaders find themselves at odds.
