“When huge chunks of your base are telling you something, you have to listen to them,” said Jindal, who suspended his own White House bid last year. “Let’s let the voters speak.

“It makes for a great fiction novel,” he added of a brokered convention in Cleveland next July. “The reality is, you can do the math. He has done very, very well. It is exactly what is wrong with the GOP establishment and it ignoring the will of the voters.”…

“If it comes down to Donald Trump and [Democratic presidential front-runner] Hillary Clinton, I would certainly support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee,” he said.

“I didn’t wake this morning a big fan of Donald Trump,” the Louisiana governor added. “I hope it’s not him [as] he’s not my favorite. I think Donald Trump’s wrong on a whole host of issues.”