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"They say it was the roughest campaign ever in the history of Republican politics, but what you do is you go to sleep for a couple of days and you wake up and you honor [the pledge]," Donald Trump said. (AP Photo) Trump unloads on former GOP opponents who refuse to back him
By GABBY MORRONGIELLO (@GABRIELLAHOPE_) • 6/29/16 5:26 PM SHARE TWEET SMSMore Donald Trump railed against several of his Republican primary opponents on Wednesday night for declining to endorse him in the general election, going so far as to suggest "they should never be allowed to run for public office again."
"I have guys out there and if you really think about it, they're really sore losers," Trump told supporters during a campaign rally in Bangor, Maine.
Trump was referring to at least seven GOP presidential hopefuls who signed a loyalty pledge to support their party's presidential nominee and have since declined to do so. Such candidates include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
"It was a rough campaign," he conceded. "They say it was the roughest campaign ever in the history of Republican politics, but what you do is you go to sleep for a couple of days and you wake up and you honor [the pledge]."
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The presumptive Republican nominee continued, claiming that he considered the pledge to be "legally binding" and assuring his supporters that he would have honored it had Kasich, Cruz or any other GOP candidate clinched the nomination instead.
"There are people I don't like or particularly respect on that stage, but I would have honored it," Trump said. "I wouldn't have gone crazy, yelling it from the loudest building."
Trump himself routinely changed his position on the pledge during the primary, threatening more than once to leave the Republican party and launch an indepedent bid.
"But you know what, we have people who haven't honored the pledge and that's a terrible thing," he told the crowd. "They signed a pledge saying they will abide, they will back the candidate of the party and now they sit back and ... they broke their word."
"In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful," he added.
Some of the billionaire's former opponents have said that in addition to declining to endorse Trump, they will not attend next month's GOP convention.
Adios Señor Cruz.
They are assuredly liars. They are also open to a President Hillary, which shoots their conservative bona fides in the foot. As a Christian, I can only hope and pray they repent at least of the lies/perfidy. I wish hell on no one.
The big news story in Chicago was former Bears coach Mike Ditka was going to support Trump at the convention . Last report I heard was Ditka was supporting Trump but would not be at the convention. He’s a businessman in Illinois . He knows what the Chicago media and Dem politicians could do to him. Just reinforces for me how fearless Trump is.
Thanks for the additional information. I stand corrected.
In the interest of full disclosure, Trump’s performance in that first debate is what encouraged me to get aboard the Trump Train. I do now recall that the pledge concept was proposed as leverage to keep Trump from going third party.
My daily following of the campaign has intensified exponentially!!
At this point, all I care about is that Trump is elected in November—THE ALTERNATIVE IS TOO PAINFUL TO CONTEMPLATE!!!
"He wanted it to leave a mark and it did."The only mark it left was from ripping their cloak of lies off of them. They're marked, all right, marked as the dishonorable liars they really are who have always floated lies as excuses for betraying the people who elected them.
A nuke would work nicely.
Be the best thing to happen to the American Republic since 1787.
“More so than the race for the WH? The next POTUS will decide if the SC tilts far left or conservative for the foreseeable future. Is that not important?”
The presidential race is the most important. We need to beat Hillary and we’re all hoping Trump will put together a competent campaign to do that.
Some people are going to help. Others will just vote. If you can’t help for Prez, then help somewhere else.
I am one of those people who will have to decide what to do. In the past I have spent election day in New Mexico walking the precincts. I helped Bush almost win there and I helped him win there.
I will vote for Trump but I won’t work for him. He’s just too vulgar for me to knock on doors for. I also haven’t donated to him.
So I will look for other places to do some good. I’ll pick a few senate races and give them a few hundred dollars each. I may volunteer to help one of them in person. Two years ago I gave a few hundred dollars to four different senate candidates and they all won (Ernst, Sullivan, Cotton and Gardner). It will be tougher this year as so many Republicans will be in tough races. Maybe my little bit can still do some good.
Agree. Yes, they damn sure are playing their games.
Bull, he is plotting to over turn the will of the voters at the GOP convention. Cruz is globalist scum and will not be reelected in Texas.
Okay, Cruz hasn’t been in Colorado getting Darryl Glenn elected.
It’s all a plot by the mainstream media which Trump will need to spend his time putting a stop to.
Exactly right.
Cruz isn’t campaigning against Hillary that I can see. Have you seen him talking about how a Hillary presidency would be the end of the US as we know it?
“Cruz isn’t campaigning against Hillary that I can see. Have you seen him talking about how a Hillary presidency would be the end of the US as we know it?”
No - I think Cruz is using the 1964 Nixon strategy.
When Goldwater was nominated in 1964, Nixon decided he was going to get killed by Lyndon Johnson so he traveled the country tirelessly helping Republican candidates in House and Senate races. Those candidates that won, and even the ones who lost remembered the help and helped him win the 1968 nomination.
I have not heard him speak out against Hillary. But I have heard him bash Trump over and over again. What turned me against him was when he actually blamed the Chicago violence by BLM & Soros on Trump.
Kasich and Cruz should not be allowed to go to the GOP convention. Both are #NeverTrump, both showed they have no honor and broke their word to support the nominee. Screw both of them. Neither should be allowed to run as a republican ever again.
Maybe he expected honorable losers to honor their pledge, what did you expect?
“Absolutely correct...We really need a thorough “housecleaning” in Washington....”
The Socialist really love that scenario.
that’s easy
1964
the SAME establishment polititians
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