Trump: ‘I Want to Keep the Door Open’ to a 3rd Party Run

‘I want to keep the door open in case I don’t get treated fairly’

CUOMO: “Let me give you the opportunity to deal with so much of what is surrounding you, especially your ideas for the country. But to start off with the politics, this idea of you and a third party run, are you willing to announce this morning that you are going to stick with the GOP, try your luck there, hope for fairness and if it doesn't work out it doesn't and no third party run?”

TRUMP: “No, there’s been so much false reporting, Chris, and you know it probably as well as anybody. You know what’s been happening. I mean, people are putting out signals and everything else. Look, I’m running as a Republican. I’m leading in every poll, I think you report all these polls, in fact in the CNN poll, I’m leading very big. Iowa just came out yesterday where I’m leading substantially in Iowa. We are leading all over the place. I want to run as a Republican. I want to be the Republican candidate. I think that's absolutely the best chance for winning, the way it's going right now, I’m being treated very nicely. I just want to be treated fairly. If I am treated fairly, that's the way it’s going to be. But I want to keep that door open? I have to keep that door open. Because if something happens, where I am not treated fairly, I may very well use that door. So anybody that says anything, I hear all of these so-called advisers. And I think you know me well, enough to know about all the advisers that everybody is talking about that don't even exist. I will tell you, I’ll keep the door open. But it’s not something I want to do. I want to run as a Republican and I want to win as a Republican and take it back for the Republicans and for the country and make America great again. You know, my whole campaign is based on making America great again. It’s so simple, but it’s hard to do. It takes a certain person to do it. And I’ll be able to do it. I look at my competition; they will not be able to do it.”

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