Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says that he’s personally doubtful that Donald Trump will be unseated as the presumptive nominee at the convention in Cleveland, but “nothing is impossible…but highly highly unlikely.”
“My personal view is it is highly highly doubtful,” Priebus said during a Politico Playbook breakfast Friday morning. “As I have said before the rules committee of 2016 writes the rules for the convention. I don’t write the rules.”
When asked if Trump could have the nomination wrangled from him on the convention floor, Priebus joked that there were plenty of rules experts in the room at the Politico Playbook breakfast.
Priebus says that he’s comfortable with Trump as the nominee as he has worked with him extensively behind the scenes, but he does say he believes Trump will soften his tone and pivot to general election mode.
“The person you saw on Tuesday night was the person I got used to dealing with on the telephone and in person,” Priebus says. “That general election approach is the type of approach I have been dealing with.”
