Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is using “Gestapo tactics” to win delegates leading up to the party’s national convention, Donald Trump’s convention manager charged on Sunday.
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“He’s threatening. You go to these county conventions, and you see the tactics, Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics,” Trump aide Paul Manafort told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“The only game I’m focusing on right now is getting delegates,” Manafort said. “And the games that have happened, even this past weekend, you know, are not important to the long-term game of how do we get to 1,237.”
“[If] they don’t get what they want, they blow up,” Manafort said of the Cruz campaign. “It’s not my style, and it’s not Donald Trump’s style. But it is Ted Cruz’s style. And that’s going to wear thin very fast.”
Trump recently hired Manafort to manage his campaign’s accumulation of delegates leading up to the July convention. Manafort’s comments came the same morning that Ohio Gov. John Kasich said the “establishment” wasn’t going to allow Trump to receive the nomination, even if he does receive the most votes.
“Let the delegates hear what [Trump] says,” Manafort added. “He’s done very well so far in putting himself in position by virtue of communicating.”
