Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday that he sees little chance of a convention fight featuring efforts to deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.
“I highly doubt it,” Priebus said on “This Week.” “I just don’t see that happening.”
Noting there is “a long way to go,” Priebus said he is confident the party will settle on a nominee before the convention.
“If we have an interview in a month, and it’s a some sort of tied scenario, then I think people start talking about it. I think these are hypotheticals right now. There’s over 1,650 delegates to go,” Priebus said. It’s a long way to go.”
Priebus assured supporters of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump that the GOP would not interfere with his ascendancy if he seems to have locked up the nomination.
“If someone is going into the convention, and they have the delegates, they’re going to be the nominee,” Priebus said.
“They have to make sure they have 1,237,” he said, citing the numberof delegates required to clinch the nomination. “But I’m not going to do anything to prevent someone from getting 1,237, that’s not an appropriate role for the chairman.”
By winning a majority of delegates, a candidate genearlly locks them up through to the convention. If no candidate has a majority, the delegates can back other candidates after the first round of balloting.
