Via Daily Mail:
Donald Trump today bragged that his supporters would vote for him as an independent in a pointed taunt at Republican leaders.
The Republican front-runner highlighted a new poll which shows 68 per cent of those who said they would vote for him would do so if he was not a Republican.
He had signed a high-profile pledge to only run as a Republican and to respect the outcome of the primaries.But that was before his plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States brought his party to the edge of chaos today, abruptly pitting GOP leaders against their own presidential front-runner and jeopardizing the party’s longtime drive to attract minorities.
Unbowed, Trump fired a searing warning Tuesday via Twitter to fellow Republicans carping about his proposal. A majority of his supporters, he tweeted, ‘would vote for me if I departed the GOP & ran as an independent.’