"It would be nice if the Republicans stuck together,” Donald Trump said. | Getty Trump: I can win without support of GOP leaders

Donald Trump wants remaining Republicans to get on board with his campaign, but the presumptive GOP nominee says he doesn’t need them to win.

Several prominent Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have lined up with varying levels of enthusiasm behind Trump. But others, like former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, have yet to throw their weight behind Trump. Some, including Mitt Romney and former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, have been loudly critical of their party’s nominee.


But Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he can win in November, with or without their support.

“We're going to have a great convention and I think we're going to go on to a great victory. It would be nice if the Republicans stuck together,” he said. “ I think that I win either way. I can win one way or the other.”

“I obviously won the primaries without them,” he continued. “You know, I'm an outsider and I won the primaries. I do believe that we can win either way, but it would be nice if we stuck together.”

The GOP nominee seemed unfazed by reports of a mounting effort to deny him the nomination at the Republican National Convention next month in Cleveland. Characterizing it as a creation of the media, Trump scoffed at the notion that his pile of delegates could be snatched out from underneath him on the convention floor by a candidate who “would like to come in through the back door.”

“So I win 38 states and somebody else won none and they’re going to be the nominee?” Trump said. “I don’t think so.”

Trump also dismissed criticism that his campaign lacked the money and infrastructure in key battleground states to compete against the massive operation backing Democrat Hillary Clinton. The real estate mogul said he won’t need to spend as much as Clinton in order to win and added that should his campaign find itself short of funds, Trump would bankroll it on his own.

“She’s selling herself to Wall Street and the Wall Street fat cats are all putting up a lot of money for her. I don’t even want that kind of money,” Trump said, borrowing a line of attack that Sen. Bernie Sanders used regularly against Clinton during the Democratic primary. “I don’t think I need that money, frankly. I mean, look what we’re doing right now. This is like a commercial, right? Except it’s tougher than a normal commercial.”