RNC chair Ronna McDaniel has made signing the pledge a requirement for participation in the first debate Aug. 23.

  • Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    106
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    1 year ago

    Of course he wouldn’t.

    Why would you ask him to? You know his answer. Well he could lie and play coy. But you know he’s not going to abide it.

    • rayyyy@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely. The orange criminal doesn’t think he is obliged to follow any rules or laws, or moral standards.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s so funny that the RNC has a pledge like boy scouts. That’s how you know they don’t care about the constitution of rule of law. Their pledge is ment to override the will of the people.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    He’s only ever been loyal to himself, why would they expect him to be loyal to anything other than that?

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • donuts@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • dynamojoe@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Honestly I agree with his reasoning. There are people on the GOP ticket I wouldn’t support either (all of them). I wonder how Ronna is gonna wriggle out of this.

  • DrPop@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • n2burns@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.