Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on Sunday said rival Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) will not reach the required number of delegates to secure the GOP nomination ahead of this summer’s convention.
“By the end of this month, in the next two weeks, Donald Trump will add an additional 200 delegates to his total. He is the presumptive front-runner right now. He is the presumptive front-runner going forward,” Lewandowski said on “Fox News Sunday.”
{mosads}”And Ted Cruz is going to be mathematically eliminated from securing 1,237 delegates by next Tuesday.”
Lewandowski called on the GOP to unite behind Trump’s campaign if Republicans plan to win the White House in November.
“If that’s the case and everyone has the same goal, which is to put a Republican inside the White House for the first time in eight years, they should unite behind Donald Trump,” he said.
Lewandowski said the best states for Trump are ahead, noting he expects the candidate to do very well in New York.
He said the Republican National Committee should respect Trump’s standing and help to unite people behind him.
“He’s going to be the Republican nominee. Anything they’re going to do to potentially stop him from being that is gong to be detrimental. There is one person in this race that still is running that’s not mathematically eliminated from getting 1,237 delegates, and that’s Donald Trump,” he said.
He emphasized that Trump is the only person who is going to be able to beat the Democrats.
“If the party wants a winner, then they need to support Donald Trump.”