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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. . . there are probably going to be riots anyway.
Yes. Semi-automatic garden hoes.
NO! Darks and I have the concession!
...and ladyjane is stockpiling pitchforks.
We'll be rich as Trump by the time this is over!
I don’t think there’ll be riots per se, at least not in the same vein as the BLM variety. Real Americans generally don’t have it in them to indiscriminately destroy property, loot homes and businesses, and cause chaos.
Still, there is likely to be hell to pay in one way or another.
The Mayor of Cleveland is a hopelessly incompetent leftist and the governor of Ohio is on the Soros payroll.
Honey, YOUR math is wrong.
Cruz isn’t going to get much more.
Trump has his biggest battles ahead.
Hillary will be speed bump in comparison.
Trump has already been nuked twice: on the KKK and Chicago. And his polls never dropped at all in FL.
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If there are riots, the GOPe are just as much to blame as the liberals.
Why? At our ages what have we got to lose?
The entire Trump stategy has been to keep the other candidates in the race, and split the vote, knowing he won’t have over 50% of the vote. More than 50% still oppose him.
Making these statements means he doesn’t anticipate gleaning the majority.
and btw most of the states going forward are proportional so yes Cruz will be picking up a lot of delegates.
Who are these 'people' of which you speak?
Have Tar, Need Feathers.
There are already riots at the mere prospect.
Yet.
If he gets 50% +1 of the delegates, then he is the winner.
If he doesn’t, then he isn’t.
Then he needs to be a deal maker to get the delegates he needs to win.
Given that his argument consist of him being a winner who is great at making deals, this should be no problem.
“Well....at 72, maybe not.”
Never underestimate the gravitas of an angry old man.
Count me in.
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