It was a ridiculous question for a GOP debate! Support the party nominee? Did the GOP support the party nominee when it had Lisa Murkowski run as an independent in Alaska after losing her primary? Or when it supported Thad Cochran's third-party run in Mississippi after he lost his primary?
If the GOP were consistent in supporting all party nominees, then yes it would have been a legitimate question. But given the GOP's history of sabotaging candidates they don't like (read: Tea Party), the question was obviously unserious, hypocritical, and designed only to provoke.
Thats what the GOP kneepadders need to accept. Rules for thee and none for me isn’t a DNC exclusive. Their own linerals refined it to high art.
Blind loyalty to that is why America is in the mess it is.
In my opinion, it is because the GOP has been inconsistent in supporting its nominees that it was a legitimate question.
If Trump had answered in the affirmative, then it would've been time to ask Mitch and the boys if they would support Trump, were he the nominee.
I don't think that questions gets asked now...