{VOA NEWS / WASHINGTON} — Donald Trump, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee, is not all that worried that key party leaders say they won’t support him in the national election against the likely Democratic nominee, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
As the billionaire real estate mogul all but clinched the party’s presidential nomination last week, the last two Republican presidents, George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, and numerous other party officials declared they have no intention of supporting his maverick candidacy.
“Does it have to be unified?” Trump asked about the Republican Party on ABC’s This Week news show Sunday. “I’m very different than everybody else, perhaps, that’s ever run for office? I actually don’t think so.
“I think it would be better if it were unified, I think it would be, there would be something good about it,” he said. “But I don’t think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense.” READ MORE