▲ 463 ▼ Trump says he won't sign loyalty pledge required for first GOP debate (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 3 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 116 comments fedilink hide all child comments The pledge includes a clause saying that the candidate will support the eventual GOP nominee.
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean, I can't say I disagree with him at all in this case. Loyalty pledges are fucked. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Yeah. Imagine if the person who gets picked was a bigoted piece of shit (like.... you know). Why on earth would someone want to be forced to support that just so that they can run for their primary in attempt to be slightly less shitty? It seems like this is just something that dooms the republican party to continue being horrible. Especially since it is currently extremely likely Trump will be the GOP candidate, so this basically means most other possible candidates have to support Trump, which is obviously bad. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Yeah. Imagine if the person who gets picked was a bigoted piece of shit (like.... you know). Why on earth would someone want to be forced to support that just so that they can run for their primary in attempt to be slightly less shitty? It seems like this is just something that dooms the republican party to continue being horrible. Especially since it is currently extremely likely Trump will be the GOP candidate, so this basically means most other possible candidates have to support Trump, which is obviously bad. permalink fedilink source parent