Yup.
Posted on 03/16/2016 6:38:02 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “riots” would break out if the GOP tries to deny him the Republican Party’s nomination.
“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. And if we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 … I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically,” he told CNN.
“I think you’d have riots,” he added. “I’m representing … many, many millions of people, in many cases first-time voters.
“I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen,” the tycoon noted.
“The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries,” he said. “If you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before.”
Trump mentioned a hypothetical scenario in which he’d go to the Cleveland convention in July with about 1,000 delegates and a rival would show up with 500.
He said he believes he’ll capture the nomination before the convention and said he couldn’t imagine failing to get the party’s nod virtually “automatically” in such a scenario.
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It will be HUGE!
I understand they’re already ordering riot gear for the convention.
He’s right, again.
It will be HUGE!
And SERIES!
WE knew something might come ... and now it's pretty sure ... something WILL come down
Yup.
Not in the way he's implying. The "riot" will be peaceful and manifest itself in millions of voters just staying home in November.
Well....at 72, maybe not.
Screw pitchforks and torches! We have better.
NO not “HUGE”! It’s “YUGE”!!
There will be riots if he IS nominated. Plan on riots either way.
2000 sets.
Won’t be nearly enough if Trump and his supporters are screwed.
Not even close.
“Trump threatening violence” There will be mass hysteria from MSM again. Here we go.
Yep, exactly right, I feel sorry for the down ballot Republicans, they will get slaughtered.
Politics, nasty and contentious. A dirty game and it’s playing out EXACTLY as the Founders believed it should.
Trump has his biggest battles ahead.
Hillary will be speed bump in comparison.
“Screw pitchforks and torches! We have better.”
Flashlights and garden hoes?
Say Trump has 1200
Carson/Bush etc have 15
Rubio is stuck at 168
Kasich at BEST gets to 200
Cruz would have 892
And this assumes all the uncommitted (around 150 I think) will declare who they are voting for before the convention
If Trump is at 1100
Cruz would be close to 1000
There is no way everyone else is at 400-500
In other words if Cruz were to win that vote people would view it as not stealing the election
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