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Donald Trump said that he's still not entirely sure if Paul Ryan will run or not, but doesn't think he will. | Getty Trump: My supporters wouldn't vote for Paul Ryan

House Speaker Paul Ryan won’t seek the Republican presidential nomination because he knows Donald Trump’s supporters wouldn’t back anyone but the Manhattan billionaire, the GOP front-runner said Tuesday.

Trump told WABC’s “Election Central with Rita Cosby” that he’s confident he’ll secure the nomination on the first ballot but cautioned that there would be “unbelievable turmoil” if someone else left the convention as the nominee.

“I think if the millions of people that came out to vote for me are disenfranchised, I think there’s gonna be unbelievable turmoil,” Trump said. “And I think that whoever the candidate is — and that’s why I think Paul Ryan perhaps really doesn’t wanna win — you know, run.”

Ryan, who will chair the Republican National Convention this summer, forcefully ruled out any idea that he wants or would even accept the nomination last week in a speech at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters.

“Now I don’t know if he doesn’t wanna run. You know, he said that, so I’m not sure,” Trump added. “But I will take him at his word. He said 'I don’t wanna run,' because he knows millions of people came out and voted for me and those people will never vote for anybody else. And if they don’t, the Republicans can’t win.”

