Alwaght-Rabid US Republican front-runner Donald Trump has now warned of riots by his supporters across American if he is denied the party's presidential nomination.
Speaking on Wednesday, Trump warned that his supporters would respond with "riots" if he fails to secure the nomination at July's convention in Cleveland.
The outspoken New York businessman scored big wins in primaries in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina on Tuesday, bringing him closer to the 1,237 convention delegates he needs to win the nomination.
Trump also claimed victory in Missouri but lost the crucial state of Ohio, and left the door open for those in the party trying to stop him from becoming the Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 election.
Trump might fall short of the majority of delegates required, enabling the party's establishment to put forward another name at the convention.
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Trump said the party could not deny him the nomination should he fail to win enough delegates.
"I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. I think you'd have riots. I think you'd have riots. I'm representing many, many millions of people."
Republican Party leaders are appalled at Trump's incendiary rhetoric and reject policies such as his vow to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, temporarily ban Muslims from the United States and build a wall along the Mexican border.
The party tried to play down his riot comments, only days after Trump supporters and protesters clashed at a rally for the Republican in Chicago that was later scrapped.
As Trump indicated, there is a very real possibility he might lose the nomination if he wins only a plurality of delegates thanks to party rules that allow delegates to support different candidates after the initial ballot.
In that context, the message to Republicans was clear: Nice convention you got there, shame if something happened to it.
"I think bad things would happen, I really do," Trump said. "I believe that. I wouldn't lead it but I think bad things would happen."
The same week Trump predicted a riot, he tweeted to his millions of followers that Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders needed to "be careful" or Trump would direct supporters to disrupt Sanders events. That tweet came in response to an unsupported claim that the Vermont senator had personally sent his voters to protest Trump events.
Early March, a Muslim group in Britain named leading United State presidential candidate as the world’s worst Islamophobe on Saturday for his call to ban Muslims from entering the US.
The Islamic Human Rights Organization (IHRC) named the Republican presidential hopeful 'the world's worst Islamophobe' in an annual event in London, which the group said attempts "to subvert Islamophobia through comedy while addressing a serious and significant issue".
