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Florida GOP will require 2024 candidates to sign loyalty pledge to qualify for primary ballot
cnn ^ | July 06, 2023 | Eric Bradner

Posted on 07/06/2023 9:30:32 AM PDT by backpacker_c

Florida Republicans are requiring 2024 presidential candidates to sign a loyalty pledge to support the party’s eventual nominee in order to qualify for the primary ballot next year.

The new pledge in Florida is similar to a Republican National Committee requirement to qualify for next month’s first presidential debate, under which participants have to sign a pledge “agreeing to support the eventual party nominee.”

Several other candidates have also bristled at signing the RNC’s pledge, and Trump and DeSantis have both sidestepped questions about whether they would commit to backing the other if that person wins the party’s nomination.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cnnfakenews; desantis; fakenews; florida; trump
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To: backpacker_c

Very sorry about the double post!


41 posted on 07/06/2023 12:42:40 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: WASCWatch

How is it unconstitutional? It’s a party decision about who the party puts on the ballot. If a person doesn’t want to participate within a party, then he shouldn’t benefit from it.


42 posted on 07/06/2023 12:54:23 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: backpacker_c

uh, so what are the consequences of ignoring the pledge of loyalty should the losers subsequently simply remain silent or even renege?


43 posted on 07/06/2023 1:10:21 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: backpacker_c

No republican can win without Trump’s endorsement.


44 posted on 07/06/2023 1:16:54 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: backpacker_c

Stupid high school mentality. And a lot of chutzpah after the Republican Party spent 6 years undermining, roadblocking, conspiring, framing and obstructing Trump.


45 posted on 07/06/2023 1:36:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: backpacker_c
The only thing a loyalty pledge does is enrich the scumbag consultant class.

It's telling that the Florida GOP is looooaaaded with scumbags from the consultant class.

46 posted on 07/06/2023 1:41:50 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: skr

It’s the same political party that has shown they colluded with the left in several states to sanction or commit election fraud, so Trump lost in 2020.

So, if they GOP gets Trump to sign a loyalty pledge, then force him off the ballot in several states, so he can’t in the primary, would they hold Trump to the loyalty pledge and make him endorse someone like desantis?

Most probably.

So why give the backstabbing GOP any advantage with signing a loyalty pledge?

And as far as penalties, I’m not sure. The national RNC could arbitrarily make up some new rule for candidates, and enforce it by keeping them out of the primaries or the general convention.


47 posted on 07/06/2023 2:10:32 PM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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To: backpacker_c

I’m fine with voting Independent for Trump. If the GOP really wants to push it, I could see a whole new party springing up. The GOP does not have as strong a hand as they think they do. I would happily change and never look back.


48 posted on 07/06/2023 4:12:37 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: backpacker_c

Receives $10 million from repub party of FL. Pays repub party of FL $80 million.

Takes donor money and buys repub party of FL for $70 million. Need the law changed so you can run for president while governor? No problem. Wanna buy some delegates with that?

Looking like some dirty pool politics going on. Cali GOP is trying to do some funky shiot too. FL + CA = a LOT of delegates.


49 posted on 07/18/2023 6:51:28 AM PDT by Pollard ( >>> The Great Rest is already underway! <<<)
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