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“Whoever doesn't win, you wanna make sure that it's not because of some rules committee change or something like that, that happens,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said. | AP Photo RNC chair rebuts Trump

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday rebutted Donald Trump’s criticism of the delegate system he slammed as a “crooked deal.”

Priebus said that while most states have primaries or caucuses, a few states like Colorado have convention systems, “and that’s perfectly OK,” he told conservative radio host Mike Gallagher.

Earlier Monday, Trump said Colorado voters “are going crazy” because they weren’t given votes in the state’s primary process, which ultimately awarded Texas Sen. Ted Cruz all of its 34 delegates over the weekend.

“It’s a crooked deal, and I see it,” the Republican front-runner told “Fox & Friends” in a telephone interview.

Priebus stressed that the national convention will only produce one nominee from the three-man race and pushed back on the notion that an outsider like Paul Ryan would emerge or that the party would do anything to steal the nomination from any candidate.

“Whoever doesn't win, you wanna make sure that it's not because of some rules committee change or something like that, that happens,” Priebus said. “It has to be only because I didn't get the votes I needed on the floor. If we can get this thing all about who has the votes to make this happen, either before Cleveland or at Cleveland, we're gonna be in a much better place.”

He also maintained that whoever notches the necessary 1,237 delegates to win the GOP nomination will become the presumptive nominee.

“There won’t be any games in Cleveland,” he said. “If someone’s at 1,237, they’re going to be the presumptive nominee. No one can get talked out of it. Nobody can be promised something to make that not happen.”