Trump’s plan for debate? Victory

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans on victory in Wednesday’s night’s Republican presidential debate.

“Well, you know, I always expect to win,” he said told CBN News during an interview in Simi Valley, Calif.

{mosads}“I want to win and I’ve always had a nice habit of winning,” the GOP front-runner added of the contest.

Trump is meeting 10 other Republican White House hopefuls in the event airing live on CNN from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Wednesday night.

The GOP front-runner said he intends to strike a more measured tone than his traditionally blunt approach on the 2016 campaign trail.

“Well, it’s a tough question because you hate to say what your weaknesses are,” Trump said. “But I think I could tone it down a bit when pressed.”

“When somebody hits you hard you can hit a little less hard at the same time?” he asked.  “That may be the kind of thing our country needs, because we have to hit back hard to fight hard because we’re not going to have a country. But I will try to tone it down.”

Trump, a Presbyterian, then addressed which parts of the Bible resonate with him after repeatedly refusing to reveal his favorite passage of scripture earlier this summer.

“[It’s] Proverbs, the chapter [that says] ‘never bend to envy,’” he said. “I’ve had that thing all of my life where … people are bending to envy.”

“It’s an incredible book,” Trump added of the Bible. “There’s so many things you can learn from it.”

Trump additionally charged that he is capable of winning the Evangelical vote despite concerns over the sincerity of his faith in public.

“I can understand the Evangelicals to a certain extent saying, ‘Well, maybe he’s not as nice as we want him to be,’ ” he said. “But they also want to see the country be great.

“There are some I think that will come over, because I think they say, ‘Well, he may not be perfect but he is one of us and he’s going to do a great job for the country,’ and ultimately, you do need that,” Trump added.

Trump’s remarks comes as he leads the race for next year’s GOP presidential election across multiple national polls.

He currently ranks first out of 16 candidates with 30.5 percent, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of samplings.