Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who's running for the GOP presidential nomination, calls the RNC’s requirement for candidates to pledge support for the eventual nominee a “useless idea.”
on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Christie said, “I think the pledge is just a useless idea," after he was asked if he'd pledge to support Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the party, even if the former president is convicted of a felony.
“And by the way, in all my life, we never had to have Republican primary candidates take a pledge,” he said. “You know, we were Republicans. And the idea is you’d support the Republican whether you won or whether you lost. And you didn’t have to ask somebody to sign something.” “It’s only the era of Donald Trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge,” Christie added. “So I think it’s a bad idea,”The RNC is requiring presidential hopefuls to
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