Nice party you have here
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I’m beginning to wonder if Donald Trump just might be just a tad self-centered:
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would not sign a loyalty pledge required by the Republican National Committee for participation in the first GOP debate this month.
During a Newsmax interview, Trump said that he took issue with a particularly clause of the pledge that says the candidate will support the eventual GOP nominee.
“I wouldn’t sign the pledge,” Trump told host Eric Bolling. “They want you to sign a pledge, but I can name three or four people that I wouldn’t support for president. So right there there’s a problem.”
Trump declined to name the candidates he wouldn’t support, but criticized both former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie whom he said would both “ask me nasty questions.” The two former governors have been sharp critics of Trump, the GOP front runner in the polls.
During the interview, Trump also said he would announce next week whether he will participate in the Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee, though a refusal to sign the loyalty pledge would make him ineligible under the RNC’s criteria.
I would estimate the chances that the RNC would actually enforce the requirement if Trump wants to debate as roughly the same as the odds of Chris Christie winning the Republican nomination.
The question of whether Trump or DeSantis would be the worse general election candidate is a tough counterfactual. But as Paul has said before, the fact that Trump almost certainly wouldn’t support another Republican nominee is the strongest case for the latter. And admittedly DeSantis is already making quite a case that he would be a shitty candidate outside of America’s wang on his own.