Ted Cruz has no chance of winning the GOP presidential nomination in July without bribing delegates, Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday, and that's something his father will never do.
"He could send his private plane and send them down to Doral, they could play golf for a week and then we win that delegate," Trump's son told CNN's Jake Tapper on
"State of the Union" Sunday morning. "That's not the way this country should be run."
But that doesn't mean that he, his sister Ivanka, brother Eric or other family members aren't planning to help their father attract delegates.
"I think we'll do some of that, I think that's natural," Trump said. "I think we're going to do what we need to do to win, to a point, but I think we want to win without having to do that."
The delegate electoral system may have made sense 200 years ago, Trump continued, "when everyone lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere. I have the Library of Congress in my iPhone. I have all the information I could possibly need. Most people have cable television and access to news. They don't need the archaic system."
But the establishment, he continued, doesn't loves the system because "they don't have to appeal to the voters or care what the voters say. They have to grab the umpteen people who have been party loyalists and do whatever the party says."
Trump also accused the Republican National Committee of wanting to see Hillary Clinton elected rather than to allow his father to become the GOP nominee.
"They want to try to push someone else who has zero chance of winning anywhere else," he told Tapper. "It doesn't make any sense to me. I have to certainly question their motives."
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