Donald Trump News: GOP Leaders Grudgingly Accept Donald Trump's Winnings

By R. Siva Kumar - 17 Mar '16 09:08AM

So will Trump make it? Republican leaders are not too sure. They are teetering between "grudging acceptance and deep denial" about Donald Trump as a GOP presidential nominee.

There are three more states to win. But he is the only candidate who can get the Republican nomination before its July convention. Sill, he needs to improve his winning in coming contests in order to get 1,237 delegates.

"I still think it's a very realistic chance that nobody's going to have a majority of the delegates," said Henry Barbour, a senior Republican National Committee member who was part of Marco Rubio's delegate strategy, until the Florida senator left the race.

Barbour added that Trump "doesn't deserve to be president." Yet, he could support Trump if he "can convince me that he's presidential material."

Trump announced that his supporters will show a revolt if he is not able to win a rules fight.

"You'd have riots," Trump said on CNN's "New Day. "If you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you've never seen before,"

However, how do they stop him on track? The Republican Party shows a lot of worry about his ascendancy but is taking no action to halt him either.

The opponents did not even rally around Ted Cruz, or any other candidate who can overtake Trump in the delegate count.

Three well-financed attempts to halt him stopped the ads after his recent elections. There are no Trump attack ads for the Arizona contest in a week, or in any other states.

So far, Trump has won 47 percent of the Republican delegates. But he has to win 54 percent of the remaining delegates to get the nomination when the primary season ends on June 7.

Though any act to block him out would leave the party in trouble, Republicans said that the current state is anyway chaotic.

"The divisions are already there," said John Jordan, a California-based donor who was leading a pro-Rubio super PAC. "There's already open warfare on TV. A couple thousand people in a food fight in Cleveland pales in comparison."