AP Photo Trump: Reports of delegates organizing against him are media 'hoax'

Donald Trump says he isn't worried about delegates organizing against him at the Republican National Convention next month — but he spent a large part of his rally in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon insisting that it won't happen.

The presumptive Republican nominee, speaking from the Treasure Island hotel and casino, insisted that the story "is all made up by the press. It's a hoax."


POLITICO reported on Friday the efforts by dozens of anti-Trump delegates to block Trump from securing the GOP nomination in Cleveland. Republican National Committee officials and party leaders have dismissed the idea that someone other than Trump could be the nominee, but the effort is one of the most significant to come together since the Republican primary ended.

“Who are they going to pick? I beat everybody,” Trump said. “I beat the hell out of them. And we’re going to beat Hillary.”

Trump continued: “And it’d be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit.”

Trump also suggested that if Republicans don’t unite behind him, he’ll move forward by funding his own campaign.

“If they don’t want to help out as much, I’ll fund my own campaign,” he said. “I'd love to do that.”

Continuing to fund his own campaign, Trump said, would be “the easy way” to go about raising money.

“I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing,” he said.