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Spokesman: RNC would support Trump '100 percent'

Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer on Thursday suggested someone will win the Republican nomination outright, and should it be Donald Trump, the RNC will support him "100 percent."

“I still think that we’ll go to Cleveland with a nominee,” Spicer said Thursday on CNN.

While Spicer didn’t explicitly say Trump would be the nominee, the New York billionaire has a 250-delegate-plus advantage over his nearest rival, Ted Cruz, whose path to securing 1,237 delegates before the convention is nearly impossible. As for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his path to 1,237 is mathematically impossible.

A group of anti-Trump conservative activists huddled earlier Thursday to discuss a strategy to bar Trump from the magic number of delegates, which would lead to a contested convention in July.

If no one wins the nomination outright and the candidates go to the convention without a nominee, Spicer said, “then we will prepare like we do for every other contingency. We’ll have an open, transparent, democratic process where our delegates that were elected will go there and elect a nominee and we will go out united and win in November.”

Spicer told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer the party needs to “unite behind whomever the voters select as the nominee” and grow. Just beyond the midway point of the primary, GOP voters have overwhelmingly chosen the real-estate mogul. Trump has sparked record voter turnout, and he often takes credit for growing the Republican Party and has recently begun calling for the party to unite behind his campaign.

“We need to bring more and more people in if we want to defeat Hillary Clinton,” Spicer said, adding that Republicans need to keep their eyes on the prize.

“Hillary Clinton would take this country in a very different direction than any of the individuals that are still in the race,” he said. “We all need to understand that as much as you may like one of those three remaining candidates, the bigger prize is to stop Hillary Clinton from succeeding Barack Obama in the White House.”

Asked bluntly if the party would rally behind Trump as the nominee, Spicer said “100 percent.”