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A Republican National Committee spokesman said Monday that it isn't the RNC's role to handicap the presidential nominating process. | AP Photo RNC on Cruz-Kasich alliance: That's up to them

If Ted Cruz and John Kasich want to team up to try to deny Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump the requisite 1,237 delegates to clinch the GOP nomination outright, that’s up to them, Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer said Monday.

“We've said this for a long time: Every campaign has to run its own strategy,” Spicer told MSNBC. “It's really not our job at the RNC to handicap it as much as just to ensure that we have a fair and transparent process.”

Trump is the only candidate with a mathematical path to clinching the nomination before the convention. But in a last-ditch effort to stop the billionaire from reaching the magic number, Cruz and Kasich’s campaigns announced late Sunday that they would cede states to each other.

“If Donald Trump gets to 1,237 bound delegates, he becomes the presumptive nominee,” Spicer said. “If he falls short of that bound delegate number, then we will head to a contested convention, and it looks like that's what the strategy is of the remaining other two candidates. But again, that's up to them to decide, you know, what alliances are good or what strategy they want to employ heading up to Cleveland.”

Trump blasted the “desperate” Cruz-Kasich strategy with a blistering statement released early Monday. “It is sad that two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months in order to try and stop that person from getting the Republican nomination,” Trump said.

“They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets of donors and special interests, how truly weak they and their campaigns are,” he added.