“Cruz and Kasich are being coy about supporting the GOP nominee, Donald has repudiated the entire agreement and threatens going 3rd party.”
The RNC started this business of reneging on the Pledge the moment the ink was dried on the pledges. The RNC has been breaching the agreement in particular ever since Mitt Romney et al let it be known they were looking for any means whatsoever change the rules at the National Convention to make it possible to take the nomination away from Trump and run Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, or someone else at any cost. As soon as they did so, Donald Trump did not owe them anything further whatsoever with respect to the pledge they trashed in an attempt to trap Trump into a one-sided obligation. Unfortunately for them, this is just the kind of one-sided foul play that Trump is campaigning about with respect to negotiating fair trade agreements. Play by the rules, or else he will do what is right to seek retribution for the treacherous breach of the agreement. The voters supporting him will love to see Trump fight back against that kind of treachery at any cost. They’re thoroughly fed up with Romney, Boehner, Ryan, Priebus, and the rest of them.
“Supporting each other is small potatoes compared to going 3rd party.”
Sure its big potatoes, when you have Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz saying they would vote or like Hillary Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama more than they would vote for Donald Trump. It can hardly be any worse than that and killed any obligations whatsoever towards a pledge the GOPe elite have already thoroughly disavowed long before Trump made his decision.
“In exchange for the candidates’ agreeing to abide with those 2 rules the Republican Party allows the candidate to represent the party in the nominating process for President. Contractually any candidate who breaks he agreement could have their delegates rejected at the convention.”
Yes, but it is an empty threat when the RNC is already unmasked and engaged in stealing the delegates already pledged to Donald Trump in places like Louisiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and so forth.
“Not so smart Donald.”
Trump pursued about the only real opportunity the RNC would allow; and that is to provoke the RNC into demonstrating just how corrupt it is when it deliberately loses to a Democrat rather than allow an outsider like himself to become the new leader of the GOP and win an election. That was his original purpose, winning or losing the election. So far, he is accomplishing that goal quite well. To top it off, he has a real chance to win the General Election, if he can keep the GOPe elite from stealing the primaries and their delegates.
Trump had better step back from the 3rd party stuff or there will be a motion to not seat his delegates.