RNC chair Ronna McDaniel has made signing the pledge a requirement for participation in the first debate Aug. 23.
Just don’t let him debate then. Imagine a GOP primary debate without Trump and how hilarious it would be as they struggle to debate actual policy.
You think they’ll debate policy with Trump?
No, but they might debate policy without him.
He doesn’t really want to debate, though.
The concept of a loyalty pledge is fucking insane, never mind that Trump also made people sign their loyalty to him.
He expects them to pledge loyalty to him.
No shit. Trump is only loyal to himself and expects the same from others. He and his cult of followers don’t give a single shit about the Republican Party.
If anything has become clear over the past years, it’s that magats are Republicans and Republicans are magats. I half expected enough “decent” Republicans to be offended by trumps actions and rhetoric to the point of splitting off to a new party. It has happened before. But instead elected Republican representatives and their deplorable voters have grabbed their literal and/or figurative tiki torches to rally around the wannabe dictator.
If they want something close to an actual debate it is best if the Orange Shit Fountain is not there anyway. Short of a mute button there is no way he can shut up for longer than 5 seconds.
Yeah, but I want him to get up there and incriminate himself.
i guarantee tr*** hasn’t read Catch-22, but a loyalty pledge? this is dumber than owlshit from all angles.
Yeah this shit even happens in local elections. Our republican sheriff candidate was decided at a republican meeting rather than an voter primary, and to vote at the meeting you had to sign a pledge. It felt like the year 1905.
I wouldn’t sign such a pledge personally eve if I feel the other candidates are fit. It should be my choice. Wes this normal for the RMC ion the past? Do the Democrats have the same policy?
It was never formalized in the past but has always been an unspoken rule: if you’re in the party, you support the party’s leader. Otherwise, why are you in the party?
In 2016, Trump caused a big stir because he stated he would not support the candidate if it wasn’t him. Some people think this was part of the reason he won, that some voters chose to support him because if he lost and ran as a third-party candidate, it would almost guarantee a victory for the Democrats.
Make it a requirement for being on the primary ballot
