[Religion and Politics]

Perhaps the ONLY mistake Trump has made in this campaign was to not REQUIRE GOPe types to also sign that pledge - in other words, if Trump ended up with the nomination, they would PLEDGE to support him. Prior to that, they could support other GOP candidates...but he didn’t demand that, when he could have.

The GOPe types must have thought the pledge was that the candidates must support whoever they anoint to be the eventual nominee. Our choice wasn't supposed to matter...

[BobL]

Absolutely that was the case. The deal was that Trump would run, and of course lose, fairly, in the Republican Primary process - in exchange, Trump would support the eventual ‘mainstream’ nominee.

They would have NEVER made Trump sign the pledge if they thought he might win.