All three of the Presidential candidates said on Tuesday they can no longer stand by their promise to support the Republican party’s eventual nominee.
Donald Trump revoked his pledge to support the nominee and he also freed Ted Cruz from the pledge. Â In a CNN Town Hall Trump said,
“He doesn’t have to support me. I really don’t believe I need his support,â€
Ted Cruz said things have changed and he can no longer support the pledge.
“The answer to that is to beat him at the ballot box,â€
“I’m not an easy person to tick off, but when you go after my wife, when you go after my daughters, that does it,â€
Cruz accused Trump of feeding stories to the National Enquirer that say Cruz has had multi affairs, which Cruz has strenuously denied.
John Kasich also said his answer is the same as Cruz’s and he cannot pledge to support the eventual nominee.
“I gotta see what happens,†Mr. Kasich said. “If the nominee is somebody who I think really is gonna be hurting the country and dividing the country,†he couldn’t endorse him.
My party is a mess. Â I sure hope we can get it together after July. Â Something good has to come from all of this.
Read more here.Â
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Trump hit an iceberg last nite with his comments. Now, do you take down Cruz? What is the endgame? Without legal problems, just how does Cruz beat Hillary? Or, has Kasich been the guy all along?
You really think Cruz is a better candidate than Romney was?
They had to go to Cruz once Rubio dropped out. No he is not more likely to win than Romney… At this point I doubt the Republicans could run Jesus and beat a Democrat. The GOPe has helped the Democrats skew the demographics so far in the Democrats favor, that you will soon have a one party ruled state.
I agree.
[…] Presidential Candidates Revoke Pledge to Support the Nominee […]
The Conservatives that run the GOP have left nothing to conserve.
To the Trump is going to destroy conservatism guys here… I invite you to peruse, Jeanine’s article:
http://thebullelephant.com/sixteen-states-immigrant-population-15-six-states-25/
Now your wonderful conservatives have been creating this world since 1986. While you guys blather on about how wonderful a conservative.. Rubio is… or McCain or Lindsey Graham, or Orin Hatch or Paul Ryan is… these guys are all about open borders.
Now you guys tell me… how are open borders going to win conservatives elections? The Democrats have COMPLETELY GIVEN UP ON BORDER ENFORCEMENT. Go watch Bernie and Hillary talk about how they are going to make the US one big Act of Love (to quote another of your conservative favorites Yeb!) One is trying to out do the other to support amnesties.
Can any of you count? Do you think that the Democrats importing a voting block is going to win conservatives elections?
This will soon be a One Party Ruled Country and they know it…
If not for Trump, we would be discussing with Yeb or Rubio how big an amnesty the GOPe is going to have….
Trump has his problems. He has sworn to defend our border. I will overlook a lot to get that.
No he hasn’t… he has maybe sorta promised a fence (except he apparently told the NYT that that was just a way to get the support of the rubes and that he had no intention of following through.)
In the meantime, fence or not, he openly supports amnesty (of the touch back or non-touch back variety, depending on the day and statement). And he vehemently supports visa programs that benefit him personally but harm American workers.
Trump not only has problems, he has a history of saying whatever sounds good at the moment, like how suggesting illegals self-deport is maniacal and mean-spirited.
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/trump-romneys-crazy-policy-of-self-deportation-cost-votes-084238
Ultimately, this is probably good. Trump has no political principles. That is why he’s been on every side of every issue, including the one that arouses most of his followers –illegal immigration.
Donald’s only principle is to advance Donald Trump. His campaign is basically a Will to Power, thus the bullying and threats. He believes in nothing but the magnificence of himself. And he’s willing to do anything to win for himself.
There is some chance a corrupt Republican party can rebuild itself around Ted Cruz; Trump taking over could only lead to a cult of personality, more big government control and quite possibly fascism.
OK, you are going to see to it that Trump loses and then you can say… see.. we told you nationalism was baaad… We need to open up our country to cheap labor and cheap goods and multiculturalism… oh and we need to support trillion dollar foreign ventures too! Got to fight em there right??? What’s a few more trillion dollars wars to a what is it now… a 20 trillion dollar federal spending?
What is going to be left of your party? You are absolutely useless. There is not a dimes worth of difference between you and the Democrats when you get down to it, oh except they deliver entitlement programs to their voters… you guys talk about the one day far far into the future when we will reduce entitlements. All the while, your party insiders make sure that the border stays open and corporations gets more “free trade” proposals so they can offshore jobs and import labor under these treaties..
The attack on Trump is remarkable. The GOP Inc is fighting for its life. It NEVER attacks Democrats in the same manner as it has gone after him. Because…. Democrats are not a threat to their way of life. Trump is. If he remolds the party away from the donor’s interests as he has campaigned, the Beltway Gravy train runs out.
Hey Jeanine… that means the growth of McMansions in Loudon County might be threatened!
RIP GOP.
You’re right that the Democratic party is no where near Trump’s threat to conservatism and the historic principles of the GOP. At least they oppose us openly, and people know what they stand for. But when a long-time liberal suddenly acts conservative to run for president as a Republican, naturally it scares the hell out of those of us who have been fighting for conservative principles since back when Trump was OPENLY a democrat.
Trump. Will. Destroy. Conservatism. That’s why he’s is so vigorously opposed by true conservatives.
Stonewall — perhaps you should at least attempt to be fair: If Trump loses the primary, or wins the GOP nomination and loses to Hillary, it will be because principled conservative-leaning individuals cannot accept that a leopard (so readily) changed his spots. If you’re a conservative, please consider where you’d stand regarding a Democrat presidential candidate who admitted being a serial adulterer, said he was 100 percent pro-choice, proposed a universal health-care system for America that “the government’s going to pay for”, made millions with his sleazy gambling casinos, and said “Women, you gotta’ treat ’em like s–t!”. That’s just the short list, but I’ll concede this point: America needs a president that will fight for America, but for us who don’t believe that this neoconservative is anything more than a carnival huckster exploiting the rage directed at the GOP’s old guard, please cut them some slack.
When did I support more growth in Loudoun?
I believe Trump justifies this by claiming to have been “treated unfairly.” Can anybody justify this? It seems to me that he thinks its unfair that a) some people don’t support him, and b) that his opponents haven’t given up yet.
Of course a narcissist like Trump thinks that means he’s been treated unfairly, but is he the only one?
Trump treated unfairly? Let’s see… the GOP Incorporated has attacked him with a vigor that they don’t use on Democrats. Mittsey Romney gives a speech with vitriole that he might have used on Obama and perhaps won. National Cuckview, the voice of the Neocons, runs ten stories a day attacking Trump. You get the GOP Inc. talking about brokered conventions and what chump will they insert there… After they asked Trump to pledge not to run third party.. They use that idiotic Fox News to attack him constantly… Instead of coalescing around him, they have attacked and made him defend himself..
So basically it is unfair for anyone to oppose him? When the hell did that become unfair? And why isn’t it unfair for Trump for trump to call Cruz “Lyin’ Ted” or for Christie, Carson, et al. to support Trump instead of Cruz?
No candidate has the right to anybody’s support. That’s how america works. Move to a communist dictatorship if you want to make people support one candidate. It’s perfectly fair (and common) here in America for people to oppose one candidate and support another in an election. It’s fair when mitt does it. It’s fair when Trump does it.
They asked everybody to pledge support for the nominee, and forced nobody to. Nobody but Trump is to blame for him making himself a liar on that front. (It seems Cruz and Kasich are also strongly hinting that they too were disingenuous on that score.)
Do you really think it’s unfair for a candidate to face opposition? Really? That’s the core of democracy.
Hear Hear !
Couldn’t agree more, and his favorite recourse whenever he feels challenged is threatening everyone with law suits. I hope that Trump supporters will excuse me for saying this, but anyone who enters the political arena to challenge all comers for the highest office in the land should show more spine, instead of acting akin to a sissy liberal. He’s threatened to sue Louisiana over how Delegates are awarded, threatened to sue the Breitbart reporter who allegedly touched him, threatened to sue the media for writing about him, threatened to sue Ted Cruz over his presidential eligibility, threatened to sue both Ted Cruz and John Kasich over anti-Trump campaign ads, and the list rolls on and on.
One thing’s for sure: Trump’s a crybaby ‘suebaby’, and one need not be ashamed for allowing his gut-retching laughter to roll upon reading about a tiny smidgen of Trump’s crybaby law suits: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/the-lawsuits-of-donald-trump/273819/