Trump: Cruz ‘Had a Bad Night’ So Now He Supports a Contested Convention

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EARHARDT: “Well, that’s I want to ask you about. Because, last night you were talking about that — about unifying the GOP but then you have Ted Cruz who said he told Megyn Kelly that’s going to air tonight, we have a little clip of that, he’s telling Megyn Kelly that he’s OK with a contested convention. Listen to this and I want to get your reaction.”
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KELLY: “[indecipherable] And you haven’t amassed enough, and it’s a two-man race, you’re okay with the contested convention. It goes to the balloting system.”
CRUZ: “If nobody gets 1,237 you have two front-runners, look, Reagan and ford battled out in the contested convention. If you’re fighting between the candidates who have earned the votes of the people and it’s delegates who have been elected to do that that’s the way that the system works.”
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EARHARDT: “You know, what’s your reaction to that?”
TRUMP: “I’ll tell you my reaction. Two weeks ago he said that was a terrible thing. Now because he had such a bad night last night, he had a very bad night. He thought he’d win Mississippi and I won in a landslide, I almost got 50% of the vote. He thought he’d win Michigan and I won in a landslide. I mean, I got a tremendous amount of the vote. A tremendous amount. Tremendous margins. So I won Hawaii on top of all of it. So he thought he was going to do better. He had a very bad night. Now he cannot get to the 1,257 or whatever — the exact number is. 1,237. He can’t get to the 1,237. As person who can’t get to 1,237, I agree with him. He should be saying exactly that. The difference is I can get there. And I can get there relatively easily because I have a very big start and my great states — Florida, I think I’ll do great in Florida and in Ohio. John Kasich, he said that he would win Michigan and win it handily. If he didn’t win, I thought he said he’d drop out. But he spent the last month in Michigan, working very hard and he came in third place. He didn’t even get second place. So I don’t know what that portends, but John Kasich said he would win Michigan. In fact, he said it on your show because I watched him. He said he would win Michigan and win it easily. Well, he didn’t win Michigan and he didn’t even do well. So that tells me that I assume he’s not going to even portend to go after Ohio. But let’s assume he does. I think we’ll do great in Ohio. I think we’ll do really good in Illinois and in — you know, in North Carolina. You know, I have a lot of employee, a lot of property and we’ll do — I think we’ll do really well there.”