Donald Trump said that there’s a good chance he will continue his 2016 presidential campaign as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican primary, as “so many people want [him] to.”
Trump has recently surged in Republican primary polls, yet he claims he has been ostracized by career politicians within the party. “The RNC has not been supportive,” Trump told The Hill on Wednesday. “They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy. The RNC has been, I think, very foolish.”
“I’m not in the gang. I’m not in the group where the group does whatever it’s supposed to do,” Trump continued. “I want to do what’s right for the country — not what’s good for special interest groups that contribute, not what’s good for the lobbyists and the donors… I’m not surrounded by all sorts of pollsters and PR people. I speak the truth. Our country is in big trouble, and I know how to turn it around.”
Finally, when directly asked about running as an independent, Trump said he would, “have to see how [he’s] being treated by the Republicans. Absolutely, if they’re not fair, that would be a factor.”