Presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering the GOP pledge to not run as a third-party candidate, an anonymous advisor to his campaign told ABC News in a report published Monday.
At the GOP debate last week, Trump did not rule out running as a third-party candidate, but he also said that he wants to win the Republican nomination.
“I am discussing it with everybody. But I’m talking about a lot of leverage. We want to win and we will win. But I want to win as the Republican,” Trump said during the debate. “I want to run as the Republican nominee.”
The horse has left that barn, Donnie… The mouth breathing rubes don’t do walk backs. They see weakness there, Donnie. You said so yourself.
If he makes this announcment I’ll be curious to see if a reporter asks the obvious follow-up, “Will you support and campaign for the eventual nominee if it isn’t you?” Also, will the expected obscufation from Trump in response be allowed to slide, or forcefully challenged with an insistence on a responsive answer?
Donald’s demanding media and other candidates wear little organ grinder monkey hats during the next debate…
I hope he doesn’t take the pledge. Honestly Trump is the best thing that could happen to the Republican party. The longer Republicans stick to this “appeal to the troglodyte” strategy and try to do it as subtext the less likely they are ever to recover as an actual sane functioning political party. Trump is exposing and destroying the monster sooner. And that is a good thing. Maybe there will be a remnant of a corpse that can be brought back to life as an actual fact and policy based party.
He is going to take them to the cleaners. He’ll bow out and sigh a “noncompete” clause, but it will cost them dearly.