More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Interviewing Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday, the hosts of both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning pushed the idea that the 2016 Republican field was so divided that there would have to be a brokered convention to pick the party’s nominee.
On Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie demanded: “There's open discussion among some Republicans of this notion of a brokered convention. That if Donald Trump were to be the nominee, that Republicans would get together at the convention and come up with an alternative and have a floor fight. Let me ask you directly, will you rule out this notion of a brokered convention?”