“I am watching television and I am seeing ad after ad after ad put in by the establishment knocking the hell out of me, and it’s really unfair,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “But if I leave, if I go, regardless of independent, which I may do — I mean, may or may not. But if I go, I will tell you, these millions of people that joined, they’re all coming with me.”
Trump signed a loyalty pledge with the Republican National Committee last fall promising to support the eventual nominee. But the party has no legal authority to bar Trump from a third-party run. “I signed a letter with the RNC and I said, you know, I wanna do this as a Republican — the pledges, they call it,” he said in Thursday’s interview. “But I’m not being treated the right way. I am not being treated properly.”
The billionaire has sparked record turnout in the Republican primary as he’s dominated his opponents by winning 10 of the first 15 states. “I’ve brought in millions and millions of people to the Republican Party, and they’re gonna throw those people away,” Trump said. “And I’ll be honest, whether I ran as an independent or not, those people will never go out and vote” for another candidate.
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