GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said a Thursday meeting with Republican National Committee officials in Washington, D.C., was “terrific,” calling it a “unity meeting.”
Mr. Trump called it a “terrific meeting.”
“It’s really a unity meeting,” Mr. Trump said in an interview that aired Thursday evening on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.” “You know, we’re leading by a lot. We have far and away the most delegates — millions and millions of votes more than anybody else, than Ted has or than Kasich has.”
“I think they wanted to really discuss unity, and I like discussing unity, too,” he said. “Theoretically, and my whole life, people wouldn’t sort of understand this, a lot of people, but it’s been about unity.”
“I get along with people. I get along with ’em very well. … We had a very good meeting with the RNC,” he said.
Mr. Trump also met with foreign policy advisers Thursday in Washington, D.C. He’s been under fire the past several days for suggesting that a woman who undergoes an abortion should face punishment if the practice were made illegal and for refusing to take the threat of nuclear weapons off the table, including in Europe.
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Mr. Trump later clarified that if abortion were made illegal, the doctor or person performing the abortion would be held legally responsible, not the woman.
“My position has not changed. Like Ronald Reagan, I am pro-life with exceptions,” Mr. Trump said.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Thursday that it wasn’t really a “surprise meeting.”
“When a candidate comes into town and says hey, we’re going to be in town having meetings, [we] want to stop by and say hello, hey, no problem, let’s check with the schedule,” Mr. Priebus said on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.
“It worked out and the team came over and we had a good meeting and we talked about a little bit of the process, a little bit about convention,” he said. “We did talk about unity and working together, and making sure that when we go to Cleveland and we come out of Cleveland that we’re working in the same direction.”
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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