BARRY BENNETT: The establishment’s love of Ted Cruz recently which, once they get to the convention, they’ll be like, “Ted who?” But, anyway, it kind of plays in our favor. It looks like he’s a part of the establishment when he does this. Which is -- I think it’s working against him to a certain extent.

KELLYANNE CONWAY: Goodness, you've hired Paul Manafort, who ran the convention for Ronald Reagan in 1976.

BENNETT: I don’t think Paul Manafort is a hired employee, Kellyanne.

CONWAY: No, I think he's part of the establishment, though. And just this afternoon, on Twitter, it was revealed that your delegates in New Jersey include Governor Christie, one of his sons, and half of the county chairs. I think you're becoming --

BENNETT: A former United States Senator and another former governor too.

CONWAY: You're becoming a little cozy with the establishment because you need to. [CNN, At This Hour, 4/5/16]

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DDON LEMON (HOST): Is the Trump campaign intimidating people do you think, Kellyanne?

KELLYANNE CONWAY: It seems like they're trying to. There's a great article today in The Washington Post by Ed O’Keefe, Don, and he really laid out the facts of what happened this weekend. So, we hear from the Trump campaign, rules, the rules changed, it's not fair, the system is rigged, the system is corrupt, and by extension to Colorado delegates it would be corrupt who participated in it, I suppose.

And yet, very clearly it was laid out there that Steven House, who is the party chair of Colorado, has received over 3,000 calls since the convention, all of them nasty and he posted on Facebook, “When I hear about burials and my family mentioned in the same sentence, this isn't politics, this isn't democracy, this is crazy.”

And so, you can whine and complain all you want, that you didn't know the rules, you changed the rules. I would just also say there's analysis today that Donald Trump’s won 35 percent of the popular vote but 40 percent -- 42 percent of the delegates already.

So, apparently they like the rules -- they like those rules. But look, there's no place in politics, and I hope Kayleigh will back me up on this, no place in politics for people accusing folks of using Gestapo tactics, the Gestapo that was Nazi tactics. And they took people and killed them. And I don't like this kind of references in politics just because your team can’t get their life together in Colorado.

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CONWAY: Wouldn’t you love to see, no, you know what you'd love to see, Kayleigh, Donald Trump stand up and say, “Roger Stone cut the crap. Stop threatening people and their lives.” That's not democracy.​ [CNN, CNN Tonight, 4/13/16]