Trump: I’ll drop out if I fall in the polls

Donald Trump said Sunday that if he drops in the polls, he will drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

“I’m not a masochist,” Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And if I was dropping in the polls where I saw that I wasn’t going to win, why would I continue?”

Sunday’s comment — the second time Trump said he could stop his campaign — came as the Republican front-runner’s standing in polls has leveled off.

Trump remains ahead in Iowa and New Hampshire, but his lead has shrunk in the past month, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.

In New Hampshire, Trump is five points ahead of Carly Fiorina — 21 percent to 16 percent — and is followed by Jeb Bush at 11 percent.

Trump is five points ahead of Ben Carson in Iowa, 24 percent to 19 percent. His lead over Carson in Iowa was seven points in the same poll last month.

On Sunday, Trump said he would have “no problem” going back to work as a businessman.

“If I were doing poorly, if I saw myself going down, if you would stop calling me because you no longer have any interest in Trump because ‘he has no chance,’ I’d go back to my business,” he said.