Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus did not have kind words for conservatives who would prefer to back a third party alternative rather than support presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“They may as well jump off the top floor of a building because that’s what we’d be doing by having a third party,” Priebus told Reuters Friday, arguing that supporting a third party candidate would hand over the White House to a Democrat.
He also criticized the GOP donors who have signaled they might sit this election cycle out because they do not like Trump.
“If you don’t participate in the presidential election you might as well kiss away the Senate as well,” Priebus said. “The Senate goes as the presidential race goes. They’re inextricably intertwined.”
