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MuttLikeMe

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Wed Mar 16, 2016, 11:30 AM Mar 2016

RNC: "Did Trump say there will be 'riots'? No he meant "Pilots"

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/rnc-spokesman-trump-riots-response-220858

If the Republican National Committee is worried about the possibility of a contentious contested convention, one of its top officials showed no signs of concern Wednesday, even after the party's front-runner warned of possible riots in Cleveland if he is denied the party's nomination.

“Well first of all, I assume he’s speaking figuratively," Sean Spicer, the RNC's chief strategist and spokesman, told CNN. "I think if we go into a convention, whoever gets 1,237 delegates becomes the nominee. It’s plain and simple.”

CNN host Carol Costello pushed back, remarking that she did not think Trump was speaking figuratively when he told the network's morning show that in the event he comes up short of the nomination, "I think you'd have riots. I think you'd have riots.”

Spicer disputed the assessment, remarking, "It’s the left, and the people on the left that have disrupted events are trying to go in and undermine people’s First Amendment rights," a possible allusion to protesters supporting Bernie Sanders who forced the cancellation of Trump's rally in Chicago last Friday.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/rnc-spokesman-trump-riots-response-220858#ixzz4352Rfwmj
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RNC: "Did Trump say there will be 'riots'? No he meant "Pilots" (Original Post) MuttLikeMe Mar 2016 OP
The republicans would steal an election from one of their own and they think no one will react? Renew Deal Mar 2016 #1

Renew Deal

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1. The republicans would steal an election from one of their own and they think no one will react?
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 11:40 AM
Mar 2016

Especially a group of people that brags about being armed?

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