On ABC's This Week Sunday morning, Trump campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort responded to Mitt Romney and other "malcontents" in the Republican party who are "sitting in their cocoon away from the reality of the world."



Addressing the Democratic opposition, Manafort said Clinton is the "ultimate divisive figure in this campaign."



"She's had real trouble in bringing her own party together, never mind the country together," Manafort told This Week host George Stephanopoulos.



"You know, you look at people think she will do the job and is record numbers are saying she can't do the job," Manafort said. "They don't think she has got the integrity to be president. They don't think that she'll bring real change to Washington by overwhelming numbers. Whereas Donald Trump is viewed as a hope by the American people."



Transcript, via ABC News:





STEPHANOPOULOS: The man who is not coming on board, Mitt Romney, the last nominee

of the Republican Party, having that conference in Utah over the weekend says his heart is breaking

watching Donald Trump lead the GOP.



You had Meg Whitman at the same conference comparing Donald Trump to Mussolini and Hitler.



MANAFORT: Well, I think they're sitting in their cocoon, you know, away from the reality of the world. I mean, Donald Trump is none of those things. And this is sore losers.



You know, Romney wanted to run, chose not to. He's now attacking this past weekend all the other Republican who ran for president as well saying they should have done a better job. Well, if he feels that way he should have run. He was a coward.



STEPHANOPOULOS: Coward?



MANAFORT: He didn't want to get into the race. He had an opportunity to get in the race and chose not to and now he's criticizing all those who Trump beat for not running a good campaign and he's criticizing Trump who got over 3.5 million votes more than Romney got in the primaries this year.



And actually one of the underreported facts is when you look at what Trump is getting today in the Hispanic community, in the black community, in the independent community, he's equaling or doing better than Romney did at the end of the campaign.



So Romney is not one to criticize and Donald Trump, who has tapped into an angst in America, he's got a campaign strategy and is running a campaign that --



STEPHANOPOULOS: Also creating a lot of angst in the Republican Party, especially with those comments about Judge Curiel. You've got Hugh Hewitt and others talking about finding ways to stop Donald Trump at the convention.



Are you confident you can shut that down?



MANAFORT: There are very few people talking about that, the malcontents who have not been happy that Donald Trump beat all of them. The delegates to the convention who we're dealing with on a regular basis are looking forward for an exciting time.



These aren't going to be any serious issues in Cleveland. People are banding together. What's getting all the attention are five or six people. Then there's the broad base of the Republican Party that has united behind Donald Trump, is working with us, helping us build out our campaign.



And the integration, we have, for example, with the RNC, is almost seamless. I mean, it's coming together very nicely, which is one of the underreported -- another underreported fact.



Always the pundits and the media have been trying to say Donald Trump can't achieve certain goals. He couldn't get -- top 20 percent, 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent, it was going to be a second ballot.



Now they're saying he doesn't have a campaign structure. That's just not true.