GOP front-runner Donald Trump reversed his earlier comments that he would drop his White House bid if his poll numbers plummeted, proclaiming on Friday that he is "never getting out" of the race.

According to CNN, the real estate tycoon told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was amazed at the reaction to his Oct. 1 interview with John Harwood, in which he had said that he was "not a masochist" and that he would not continue his campaign "if I was like some of these people at 1 percent and 2 percent."

"The next day headlines: 'Trump considering maybe getting out,'" Trump summarized on Friday on the MSNBC morning show. "It was so ridiculous." So the next time around, the TV personality turned presidential candidate promised that he would give "more of a political answer": "I'm never getting out," he quipped.

Trump's clarification came a day after he packed a 1,600-seat theater during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, the Miami Herald noted. The candidate used the event to give is usual stump speech -- but not before claiming a part in House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's sudden withdrawal from the race to succeed outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, CBS News detailed.

"They're giving me a lot of credit for that because I said you really need somebody very, very tough and very smart," Trump said. "I know tough people. They're not smart, that's the worst, okay. That's the worst. You got to be smart. But, we need smart, we need tough, we need the whole package. And it's a positive."

Trump's rally on the Las Vegas Strip sharply contrasted with the low-key campaign event one of his key rivals -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio -- held 20 miles away with an attendance numbering in the hundreds, not thousands, the network noted.

But Trump's unapologetic megalomania was part of the attraction of his candidacy, Barbara Teixeira, one of the attendees at the tycoon's rally, told the Miami Herald.

"I'm tired of what his country has become. I'm tired of the establishment telling us what we need. I'm tired of the political correctness," she said. "If you don't like America, get the hell out."