▲ 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.
[–] onionbaggage@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 years ago (1 child) The political parties are private organizations. They can do whatever they want with their nomination process. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 3 years ago Yeah in short even the democratic party notes that. When the DNC was sued under the accusation of rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. The case was thrown out for lack of standing. In short the DNC said "You are accusing us of rigging the primaries... but rigging the primaries isn't a crime so there's no reason to spend the time proving it one way or the other". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 3 years ago Yeah in short even the democratic party notes that. When the DNC was sued under the accusation of rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. The case was thrown out for lack of standing. In short the DNC said "You are accusing us of rigging the primaries... but rigging the primaries isn't a crime so there's no reason to spend the time proving it one way or the other". permalink fedilink source parent