Trump: If Republicans Run a 3rd Party Candidate, ‘It 100% Guarantees’ a Dem Is Elected

DONALD TRUMP: “The place was packed. And it was an amazing day. And I love the people of Florida. It’s my second home. We’re in Florida tonight. And I just want to thank Florida for being, you know, just incredible. And I’m looking at the poll numbers. Even though I’ve never seen any human being hit with more negative commercials, and I’m being hit with them, let me tell you — no human being should have to have $40 million being spent on negative commercials. And despite that, we have a tremendous lead in Florida, and hopefully, we’re going do very well. I think we’re going to do very well in Ohio. I worked when I was a young guy at swifton village in Cincinnati, and I think that we’re going to be do fantastically in Ohio. I love that state. I love the people of the state. So, hopefully, we’re going to do very well there. The biggest story in all of politics isn’t even what’s happening tonight and on super Tuesday, but the biggest story is the tremendous outpouring of voters coming in to the Republican party. You’re seeing what’s happening. Millions and millions of people are coming in and voting, and they’ve never seen anything like it before. Actually, they’re doing covers on “Time” magazine because it’s a movement. What’s happening is a movement, and I’m very honored to say that if I were not involved, that wouldn’t be happening. Well, I’m only kidding, you know. Actually, I’m not kidding, but I’ll say I’m kidding because I want them to say I’m a nice person. But you know, you’re talking about millions and millions of people. And we have a dynamic party. And as a party, we should come together and stop this foolishness. You know, we have something, and I was thinking about it today for the first time — the establishment is very unhappy with the way things are going, and I can understand that, although I used to be part of the establishment. You know, seven months ago, before I decided to run, I was part of the establishment. But now I’m not part of the establishment. Once I announced I was running, they said, what’s he doing? Why is he running? He’s not supposed to be running. We want people that we can control. We want people that we can give money to, so that if we want something for pharmaceuticals or for electric or for utilities or for lumber or for oil and gas, we have total control over our senator or our congressman. So, you know, I’m self-funding. I’m not taking their money. They have no control. I’m going to do what’s right for the American people, and that’s very simple. So, they’re not happy. But I was thinking today, because I love the Republican party and I love the conservative and I love a lot of people that are very good friends of mine, and I’ve been a member for a long time. But today I was thinking for the first time, really thinking about this. We lost a great man, justice Scalia. He needs to be replaced, and you can only replace him with somebody truly great. He can never be replaced. He was really something, a very, very good friend of my sister, who is a federal judge on the court of appeals, and highly respected. And we have — and that was totally unexpected. It just shows what’s happens. Totally unexpected. So, we have a situation where they’re now saying, well, maybe we’re not going to be able to beat trump the Normal way, so we’ll run a third-party candidate. And maybe we can’t get in all the states, but we’ll do enough that it’s impossible for Donald Trump to win. And I’m saying, what are they doing? Because we’re going to appoint — me — going to appoint a great, conservative, great judge, high intellect, great conservative, something that will make the people in the Republican party very happy, someone that will make the people very happy. If they run a third party or an independent party, if they do that, it will make it impossible for the Republican candidate, on the assumption it’s me or anybody, to win. If that means losing, that means that Hillary Clinton, who should not an allowed to run because of what she did with the e-mails — should not be allowed to run — but on the assumption that they did that, it would be impossible for the Republican to win. And obviously, the independent or third party could not win. So, the Democrats would have an absolute free run. Probably you wouldn’t even campaign because it would be impossible to win. And what does that mean? That means that automatically, they are going to appoint very, very, very liberal judges. And all of this time that the Republicans are fighting, saying that we don’t want president Obama to appoint the judge, it’s not going to matter, because the new president, who would be a Democrat, will appoint the judge, so it no longer matters. And you’re probably talking about, because it just seems to be the appointment of three, four or five supreme court judges. And you’ve got to start thinking about that, folks, because anybody that does a third party, that’s what it’s going to mean, very simple. It guarantees, 100% guarantees the election of the Democrat. That means the appointment of supreme court judges, three, four or five. That is a total wipeout for conservatives and for Republicans. So, start thinking about that. Start thinking about it.”