Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Thursday that news reports about Mitt Romney pushing for a brokered convention to block Donald Trump from winning the presidential nomination were "not really" very realistic.
"This is the kind of conversation that's so far away from where this process is at," Priebus told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "There are 1,700-plus more delegates to go.
"We have a long way before we even need to think about something like that," he added. "I just think it's a waste of time playing those sort of matrix games right now."
Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, has
instructed his close advisers to investigate how to stop Trump from winning the nomination in hopes of offering himself as a "white knight" to save the party, CNN reports.
The former Massachusetts governor's attack on the current front-runner earlier Thursday was seen as part of the effort, according to CNN.
He ripped Trump as a fraud who is playing the American public for "suckers."
Priebus, who told Blitzer that he knew nothing about Romney's speech until he saw it on television, said that "nothing surprises me anymore" in response to a question about the Trump-Romney feud.
"But the truth is, this process is going to come to a head soon — and we're going to get to a nominee."
Regardless of who that candidate is, Priebus said.
"I don't care who the nominee is. Our job is to support the person that gets the majority of delegates — and whoever that is, is going to have the 100 percent support of the Republican Party."
Priebus denied that the GOP was "falling apart" — as Blitzer stated in a question — but acknowledged: "We've got to learn how to win a presidential election as a party. I’ll give you that."
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