This IS laughable…..
The first Republican debate is coming…..
The party has thees rules for EVERYONE to met except the front runner Donald Trump who probably won’t show up and clearly wants it to be know that he ain’t gonna back ANYONE else to get the Rewpublican Presidential nomination except HIM…..
And?
He says he’ll run even if he’s in jail?
Donald Trump said Wednesday he will not sign a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee — an RNC requirement for participation in the first primary debate.
The former president rejected signing the pledge during an interview with Newsmax’s Eric Bolling, adding that he would announce next week whether he plans to attend the first debate on Aug. 23.
“I wouldn’t sign the pledge,” Trump said. “Why would I sign a pledge if there are people on there that I wouldn’t have?”
He told Bolling that he could name “three or four” of the GOP challengers that he would not support for president, specifically criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson over the course of the interview.
RNC chair Ronna McDaniel has made signing onto the pledge the final requirement for Republican presidential hopefuls to participate in the debate later this month. Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) has declined to sign the pledge over concerns about Trump’s candidacy, and both Christie and Hutchinson have cast doubt on the pledge’s value and enforceability.
“It’s the Republican Party nomination, and the pledge is staying and anybody who wants to seek the nomination of our party should pledge to support the voters,” McDaniel said on Fox News last month.
Although Trump — who remains the Republican frontrunner by a wide margin — has repeatedly suggested that he might not attend the primary debate, he said Wednesday that he had not “totally ruled it out.”
“I’d like to do it,” Trump said. “I’ve actually gotten very good marks on debating talents. But you want to be, you know, they want a smart president. They want somebody that’s going to be smart. So we have to do the smart thing.”…..
This is no surprise really.
Trump is paving the way to either run himself or support one of his cronies on a third party ticket if he is denied the nomination.
And he can rightfully say that he never pledged to support the nominee.
If so?
He will have torn the ass out of ‘his’ adopted party thus conforming the fact that he NEVER was a Republican…..
Who cares?
Hell he would probably call his new party the “Real “Republican Party or some such other foolishness.
So we have a Democrat,you, deciding who is or is not a Republican?
Your continuing obsession.
I continue to assert that the guy WAS whatever party worked FOR HIM…..
Democratic, No Party and Republican…..
Don’t matter…….
He’s ALWAYS BEEN one way
In other words,he does what lots of people do.
There’s a revelation.
Bob Dole used to tell the story of how he became a Republican…
Some prominent people in his home county asked him to run for County Prosecutor.After he agreed,Dole told them he had never been active in politics and wasn’t a member of any political party.His supporters told him the county was overwhelmingly Republican.So Dole said,” we’ll I guess I’m a Republican.“
Many people run under a party banner based on the voting patterns of their area or if they think they will have a better chance winning a party’s nomination.
So?
Trump has won the Republican nomination twice (and is leading aThird time).He has largely remade the Republican Party in his own image(see Nate Cohn in today’s NYT).As Keith rightly said Trump is the epitome of a Republican.(amusingly you“agree” with him Bozo,even though he labels your “adopted party” routine as crap(quite apparently you either didn’t read what he said or failed to comprehend it.Unsurprising I might add)
But since you uh “ understand “ what a Republican is?Share it with the rest of us.
(This ought to be good)
Difference is Trump HAS NO strong policy….
As I said?
It’s about ‘HIM”…..
Other’s ARE and have been ‘True Believers’…..
Not Trump….
Just cries about NOT being able to get over for his OWN sake….
Interesting…..
Former president Donald Trump signed a pledge to accept the eventual 2024 GOP nominee when filing to become a presidential candidate in South Carolina, even though he has repeatedly refused to sign the RNC’s similar pledge that is a prerequisite for joining the first Republican primary debate in August….
More….
Note ….
I SERIOUSLY doubt his South Carolina ‘pledge’ is worth a penny……
DeSantis Slams Trump Over Refusing Debate Pledge
“Gov. Ron DeSantis torched former President Donald Trump for refusing to sign the GOP candidate pledge to support the eventual nominee,” Fox News reports.
Said DeSantis: “I mean you can’t, on the one hand, say that the country’s going in such a bad direction, which we all believe, and then, on the other hand, say you’re just going to take your ball and go home.”
If the GOP nominates anyone other than Trump most Republicans will probably quit the party anyway.
He, he, he
Hey Scott……
Some on twitter say they’d leave the country
Hop they’re serious
The old “his adopted party” bullshit. Sounds like Corey Gross and his ridiculous attempts to prove Trump wasn’t really a Republican when in reality he is the embodiment of everything that is Republican – racist, xenophobic, and just plain mean.
No one believes this crap and, more importantly, they don’t care. Trump and his party speak for millions of aging white people who fear for their place in this country and desperately seek someone to look down on while rejecting science. What could be more Republican than that?!
I DO agree with ur second paragraph Keith
So TRUE…..
Trump just capitalized on most of their words and worries