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Trump: 'Endorsements mean very little'

Donald Trump has no time for endorsements, "which mean very little," the candidate declared Wednesday.

The Republican frontrunner talked up his landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses on ABC's "Good Morning America," remarking that while he has "many endorsements," he does not "really go out and seek them."

"Now, and as of yesterday, people were calling, a lot of people were calling and I’ll have many endorsements soon, but it’s not something I want to work for, to be honest with you, because it’s a waste of time. Endorsements mean very little," Trump told George Stephanopoulos.

Trump noted that he has "some excellent endorsements, and some that I’m very proud of. But it’s a lot of work," he explained. Unlike Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz, Trump has not picked up any endorsements from Republican governors or members of Congress, according to FiveThirtyEight's tracker.

Some of the most prominent people who have endorsed Trump are former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.

"They want me to go to a certain area, have a big news conference. I would rather be with the people, I’d rather work with the people and get the kind of numbers that we got yesterday, because those numbers were amazing," he said. "We won with every single group. Every single group. Men, women, evangelicals. We won with all sorts of education—if you talk about education to the highest level to a lower level, we won with that. We won with everything, George.”