Trump Dismisses Idea of Starting New Party

TRUMP: “And I want you to know that I’m going to continue to fight right by your side. We will do what we’ve done right from the beginning, which is to win. We’re not starting new parties. You know, they kept saying, ‘He’s going to start a brand-new party.’ We have the Republican Party. It’s going to unite and be stronger than ever before. I am not starting a new party. That was fake news. Fake news. No. Wouldn’t that be brilliant? Let’s start a new party and let’s divide our vote so that you can never win. No, we’re not interested in that. No, we have tremendous — Mr. McLaughlin just gave me numbers that nobody’s ever heard of before, more popular than anybody — that’s all of us. Those are great numbers and I want to thank you very much. Those are incredible numbers. I came here and he was giving me 95%, 97%, 92%. I said, ‘They’re great.’ And I want to thank everybody in this room and everybody all throughout the country, throughout the world, if you want to really know the truth.”