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When it comes to the Republican movement to deny Donald Trump the nomination next month in Cleveland, the presumptive nominee's campaign national co-chairman does not appear to be concerned.

"Well I think the plan will be that it will stop itself, because they’re going to figure out the futility of what they’re trying to do," Sam Clovis told MSNBC on Monday. "I’ve talked to a lot of people that are already involved in the [Republican National Committee] with the rules, the delegates will come to Cleveland, they’ll have an opportunity to look at all of the layout of the land there, and I think that we already have a presumptive nominee that has won more than enough delegates to win the nomination and I think that cooler heads will prevail."


POLITICO reached out to all 112 members of the committee tasked with writing the rules of the national GOP convention, finding that anti-Trump Republicans appear to lack the votes to dump the Manhattan real-estate magnate.

"We have a lot of people who are really upset, there were a lot of hurt feelings over the course of the primary campaign, and a lot people feel like they just can’t support Mr. Trump," Clovis remarked. "I think they’ll get over it."

Asked about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) recent hedging on whether he sees Trump as qualified for the White House, Clovis chalked it up to establishment political and media powers in Washington and New York.

"Well I think that we have a lot of people that are part of the establishment here in the Beltway in Washington. We have a lot of people in the media circles in New York, and a lot of those people are looking at this campaign, this candidate and this movement as something that really troubles them because it’s not anything they can control," Clovis said. "And I think until they feel like they can control the circumstances and what’s going on, that we’re going to have this continuing issue here."

There is a "schism" in the GOP, Clovis continued, adding, "let's make no bones about it."

"And it’s been highlighted throughout this campaign, and I think that we have a different electorate coming out here, and I think the people who are in charge are seeing the fact that they’re not going to be in charge any longer," he said.

Pressed on whether the Trump campaign has a plan to counter the intraparty opposition or whether they think it will just burn out, Clovis answered, "Oh, I think we have all of the things going on."

"We’re dealing with delegates, we’re reaching out to delegates, we’re reaching out to state chairpersons, we’re reaching out to all of the state, or the people who represent us in the RNC, we have the leadership of the party that we’re working with," he said. "Yes, there’s a way to do this, and we are working that. This is the kind of thing we should be doing anyway, is make sure we’re going to have a good convention, and we’re going to have a great convention."