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Trump says 'We'd have riots' if he is denied nomination at convention

If a certain Republican presidential candidate doesn&#39;t secure 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention, things could really get interesting.&nbsp;And, according to front-runner Donald Trump, there could even be &quot;riots&quot; if delegates go back on their pledges.&nbsp;&quot;If we&#39;re 100 short and we&#39;re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 ... I don&#39;t think you can say that we don&#39;t get it automatically. I think you would have riots. I think you would have riots,&quot;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/politics/primary-results-republican-party/index.html" target="_blank">Trump told CNN</a>.&nbsp;And New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Trump endorser, agrees.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/christie_denying_trump_gop_nom_may_prove_dangerous.html" target="_blank">He said late Tuesday</a>, prior to Trump&#39;s interview on CNN, a brokered convention would be &quot;very dangerous.&quot;&nbsp;Trump is no stranger to seeing violence at his political rallies. He canceled one in Chicago last week, citing security concerns.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470449427/no-donald-trump-probably-isnt-being-charged-with-inciting-a-riot" target="_blank">The Cumberland County Sheriff&#39;s Office</a>&nbsp;also considered charging Trump with inciting a riot after a protester was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQwcE2SDtUU" target="_blank">punched in the face</a>&nbsp;at a Fayetteville, North Carolina, rally last week. The office decided against it.&nbsp;Trump took home wins in multiple primaries on Mega Tuesday, including a big 99-delegate,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku0wFIBCCA" target="_blank">winner-take-all race in Florida</a>.This video includes a clip from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC52-JvForg" target="_blank">WFTS</a>&nbsp;and images from Getty images.&nbsp;

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said that if the GOP tries to deny him the party's nomination even if he's within reach of sufficient delegates at convention time, "We'd have riots."

Trump told CNN "Newsday" Wednesday morning he's large numbers of people into the party — "The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries," — and he says "if you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you've never seen before."

He told anchor Chris Cuomo, "I wouldn't lead it," but said it could happen.

Trump cited a hypothetical scenario where he'd go to the Cleveland convention in July with roughly 1,000 delegates and a rival would show up there with 500.

He said he believes he would nail down the nomination before the convention and said he couldn't imagine failing to get the party's nomination virtually "automatically" in such a scenario. Trump said "I don't even want to think about" what he'd do if he's in such an advantageous position but still does not become the nominee.

John Kasich said his home state victory Tuesday night dealt Donald Trump a "very, very big blow" to getting the number of delegates required to win the GOP presidential nomination. He told NBC's "Today" that winning Ohio makes the case that neither Trump nor Texas Sen. Ted Cruz can "come into Ohio with the philosophies they have and win. And if you can't win Ohio, you can't be president."

Kasich has won no other states and lags far behind Trump and Cruz in delegates. But Kasich predicted that "nobody is going to have enough delegates" by the time of the Republican National Convention this summer to win the nomination outright.