Donald Trump, the US Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, has dismissed unity of the party as a prerequisite for winning the White House.
“I think it would be better if it were unified,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Sunday. “And I think there would be something good about it. But I don’t think it actually has to be.”
Trump made the remarks after several Republican politicians, including Paul Ryan, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, and George H. W. Bush, refused to endorse his candidacy.
The billionaire businessman, who has never held elected public office, has called the Republican Party a “rigged” party, and accused senior GOP politicians of plotting against him.
“The bosses are trying to run it. It’s a rigged party. The bosses want to pick whoever they want to pick. The voters wouldn’t stand for it,” Trump told CNN last week.
However, after winning in Indiana…