Ted Cruz: 'I Have Absolutely Zero Interest' In Being Donald Trump's VP
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Donald Trump can cross off Sen. Ted Cruz from his vice presidential list if he captures the Republican nomination.
"I have absolutely zero interest in doing that," the Texas senator told the "Hugh Hewitt Show." "Donald Trump loses to Hillary [Clinton], and the answer, as you know, a lot of folks in the Washington establishment, they're having fevered dreams right now of wanting a brokered convention."
Cruz said Trump would be a "disaster" as the GOP presidential nominee.
"Every poll that gets done over and over again, the polls show that Hillary just obliterates Donald Trump. Over 60 percent of Americans say they'd never vote for Donald Trump, and there's a reason the mainstream media desperately wants Donald Trump to be our nominee, why they've given hundreds of millions, if not billions of free advertising, because the networks execs are all liberal partisan Democrats. They're all ready for Hillary, and they recognize that Donald Trump may be the only person on the planet that Hillary Clinton can beat in the general election," Cruz said.
Cruz also touched on what would happen if he nor Trump had the 1,237 delegates ahead of the convention, stating there's a "big difference" between a brokered and contested conventions.
"Look, I believe we're going to beat Donald Trump, and I'm going to get 1,237 delegates. But the other option is that we go into the convention, and I don't have 1,237 delegates, and Donald doesn't have 1,237 delegates, in which case I think he and I will both have a ton of delegates, and we'll be neck and neck," Cruz said. "I don't know who will be on top. But if we don't get to 1,237, we could easily be on top, or we'll be neck and neck. And then, you actually have the convention, the delegates decide between the candidates that have gotten a whole bunch of delegates. That's actually the democratic process working the way it's supposed to. And I think there, then it becomes a decision for the delegates."
Heading into Tuesday night's primaries, Trump leads his GOP rivals with 457 delegates. Cruz is second at 365.