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Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign rally at Gateway High School in Monroeville, Pa. on April 23. | AP Photo Cruz camp: Rules won't be changed for Trump

Ted Cruz's campaign spokesman said Monday that Donald Trump would not earn a majority of the Republican delegates necessary to clinch the party's presidential nomination, remarking that the rules in place would not be bent in order for him to reach the magic number of 1,237.

"You know, when we started with a 17-person race, you know, the notion that we would get to a majority of delegates on the first ballot at the convention went down. And it’s gone down since then. And that’s just the reality," Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring said in an interview with CNN's "New Day." "I think where the math really changes in those five states that led up to New York—Donald Trump, of course, winning New York—but we won the five states leading up to that."

Trump "knows he doesn't have the math," Nehring added, and Trump is "not going to get the altitude, he’s especially not going to get the altitude now in order to get a majority of the delegates and the rules are not going to be changed for Donald Trump."

"You know, this is a guy who likes to file a lot of lawsuits you know, when he doesn’t get his way," Nehring said. "The rules, ultimately, he has to get to a majority, and he can’t get there."

Asked about the Cruz campaign's effort announced Sunday night in concert with John Kasich's team to stop Trump from getting the necessary amount of delegates to clinch the nomination before Cleveland, Nehring suggested that it was not an abdication of the Texas senator's position.

“Well, we have to deal with the world as it is, and like I said when I opened, that the nature of the campaign itself has changed, going down from 17 candidates to, you know, two or three at this point, only two who can ultimately emerge as the Republican nominee," Nehring said. "So we have to adapt to that. This is an extraordinary election.”

