This again?
Via ABC:
The Republican Party won’t “hand the nomination” to any presidential candidate who fails to win a majority of delegates in the coming weeks, the head of the GOP said Friday.
In a speech Friday to Republican National Committee members in Florida, Chairman Reince Priebus said it doesn’t matter how close a candidate comes, if he doesn’t claim the necessary 1,237 delegates. Front-runner Donald Trump has said he should be the nominee as long as he has the most delegates after the state-by-state primary process ends — even if he falls short, which appears quite possible.
“If we don’t abide by the majority, we don’t honor one of the bedrock values of American government,” Priebus said. “Majority rule is as American as apple pie or Opening Day.”
Priebus said that without a clear majority, the party will pick its nominee at a contested convention, which will be held in July in Cleveland, Ohio.
In another remark that seemed aimed at Trump, Priebus called for his party, including the current crop of contenders, to rally behind the eventual nominee. Trump at different times has declined to rule out a third-party candidacy, should his bid for the Republican nomination fall short.