Trump: With or without GOP support, 'I think that I win either way'

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published 19 June 2016

Donald Trump declared in an NBC interview Sunday he doesn't need the support of Republican leadership to win the general election. "It would be nice" if his party got behind him, the presumptive nominee said, but "I think that I win either way."

"I obviously won the primaries without them," Trump added. "You know, I'm an outsider and I won the primaries. I do believe that we can win either way, but it would be nice if we stuck together."

Previously, at a Saturday evening event in Las Vegas, Trump complained that Republican leaders are not helping him even "a little bit," and accused former candidate Jeb Bush of fomenting revolt among GOP convention delegates.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.