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Republican National Committee Communications Director Sean Spicer said Ben Carson’s threat to leave the GOP was “quite silly.”
Appearing on CNN “At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan” on Friday, Spicer insisted to co-host Kate Bolduan he was “very confident” that Carson would “stay in the Republican Party as will Donald Trump, as will everyone else.” (RELATED: Carson Threatens To Leave GOP — ‘Will Assess His Party Participation Going Forward’)
Bolduan pressed Spicer, “You can see, it definitely touched a nerve with this campaign and others, that’s for sure. In this statement, Ben Carson asked — the Carson campaign asks this, ‘If this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of voters and replace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party.’ When you look at, according to the”The Washington Post”,” some of the folks who were at this party, you have Republican Party officials, that’s no surprise, but an adviser to [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore] and someone close with Jeb Bush. Does Ben Carson have a point here? Why weren’t the campaigns invited?”
“It was a dinner, Kate,” Spicer insisted. “There are people, Reince Priebus, probably have a dinner every night, lunch, breakfast, coffee in between. People, he meets, we meet with campaigns. We do meet with the campaigns, as a matter of fact. So the idea, this is really, to be honest with you, quite silly. We meet with all the campaigns. But here’s the one thing I can promise Dr. Carson…”
Bolduan suggested, “So it’s much ado about nothing, is what you think?”
“Hold on. It really is, I mean, honestly, we have a dinner a night with people who have expressed an interest,” Spicer claimed. “Like I said, three weeks ago we had 150 members of the press here where we walked through the same thing. We meet with people all day long who have an interest in this process, pundits, members of the media, donors, campaigns, other interested people, academics. This is what happens around an election season.”
“There’s a tremendous amount of interest in what’s happening, how the process works and our job is to explain it to people and answer their questions. That’s actually what the process is supposed to be. People have questions about the process. We answer,” Spicer explained. “But here is the bottom line in all of this. Republican voters will choose the delegates that will go to the convention in Cleveland next July. Those people will decide the nominee. That’s it. Bottom line, plain and simple. If you want to know who’s going to elect the next president of the United States, it’s going to be the delegates that republican voters elect, plain and simple.”
Bolduan asked, “Is Reince Priebus going to be hosting any more dinners after this?”
“Yes,” Spicer said. “We have dinner, like I said, if people have an interest in this, we will meet with them. Again, we sat down with…”
“Look, look, I’m not the one making much ado about nothing here,” Bolduan insisted. “You saw the statement from Ben Carson. They’re furious about this. They say if what was reported and described in The Washington Post is true, he’s threatening to leave the party.”
“And I feel very confident he will stay in the Republican Party as will Donald Trump, as will everyone else,” Spicer claimed. “We’re going to have a great nominating process. Everyone will stay in, we’ll select the best nominee for this party and take back the White house. It will all work out, I promise.”