Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus sounds like he’s in a special kind of denial about what a mess his party’s presidential nomination process is in:
"We’re going into potentially — we don’t know for sure — but potentially an open convention. So the candidates, I think, are going to posture a little bit as far as what they are willing to do and who they’re willing to support and who they’re not," he told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. [...]
"I'm not really worried about in regards supporting the eventual nominee or the party," he said. "They've all agreed to that, by virtue of in one case signing our data agreement. They're not going to get the data and the tools of the RNC, and run to be our nominee, and tell me that they're not going to support the party. It doesn't work that way. They’re running to be the nominee of our party."
Except that all three candidates said Tuesday night that they might not support the eventual nominee, and Priebus has to be equally worried that Donald Trump won’t support the nominee if someone else is nominated after Trump goes into the convention with a delegate lead and that Ted Cruz and John Kasich wouldn’t support Trump as the nominee.
Trump met Thursday with RNC officials including Priebus, who reportedly told him that his campaign was responsible for locking down its own delegates, a reality that seems to have come as something of a surprise to Trump in recent weeks.