Donald Trump: I want to run against Hillary

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said that he prefers to run against Democratic leader Hillary Clinton in the elections and not against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

“Now Bernie’s over, I guess. It’s over for Bernie. I don’t want to run against Bernie,” Mr Trump told his supporters in Pennsylvania, where the Republican presidential primary is scheduled to be held on April 26.

“I want to run against crooked Hillary Clinton. We are going to beat her so badly. Is there anyone more crooked than this woman ” Mr Trump said, as he appeared to be confident of bagging the party’s presidential nomination despite being quite far away from the required number of 1,237 delegates.

However, he praised Mr Sanders for his tough fight against Ms Clinton. “(Sanders) said she suffers from bad judgement and she said — now I don’t know, I think she’s qualified, I guess. But that doesn’t mean she’s good,” he said.

“He said she’s not qualified to be President. Now what he meant is because her judgement is so bad — so Bernie Sanders, not me, said she’s not qualified. So now I’m going to say: She’s not qualified, OK ” Mr Trump said.

Meanwhile Mr Trump on Friday criticised his party’s rules which allegedly allow candidates to win over delegates through unethical means like offering plane tickets or hotel rooms, saying this "phony, crooked" delegate selection process in not democratic.

“I did know it and it’s troubling — not only troubling, it should be illegal. You shouldn’t be able to do it,” Mr Trump said when asked about the rule.