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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.
Not a great way to win friends and influence people.
Trump is speaking for me. These b@$÷@*d$ can up end a Convention.
Get it?
That hall is stuffed to the rafters with neocons from the North and Cruzbots from the South and the same goes for the
Rules and Credentials Committees.
Only a fool will rest before the damn thing is over.
Sure, it’s unlikely these creeps, liars and thieves can pull off a lynching, but it ain’t over until it’s over.
Now you take the Cruz campaign. There you had a guy who didn’t worry about nothin’. Cruz was focused, just like you recommend. Cruz said Donald will never win the nomination. Donald didn’t know the rules. Cruz said he was going to win this thing. He said he was going all the way to the Convention.
POOF!
The only place Tedlit went was to Mexico for a swim in a pool!
TRUMP won with the people and Cruz is on the curb recovering from the Trump train that ran over him. Including his vaunted ground game.
TRUMP knows where his balls are, so advise somebody that doesn’t.
So do I. But it’s as believable, at this point, as most of the other, ‘Cruz will endorse Trump,’ scenarios. I.e.: they’re all equally suspect.
“Cruz won’t lift a finger, to help Trump!”
I agree.
True; however, IF you had posted that Teddy would have stormed the stage and went into his crazed preacher mode...I would have bought that scenario. ;^)
I may have to recant...that’s the FIRST correct thing you’ve managed to post on this thread. LOL
If Trump loses, it will be because these traitorous republicans succeed in splitting the party vote against the candidate. If that happens, there will be no party left, and they will lose two years from now in the midterms like no one has ever seen. They are destroying the party out of arrogance and anger because they LOST and all their candidates LOST to Trump. Trump supporters will not come back if they succeed in their treachery.
And Nixon ran as a conservative.
You don’t address Cahill and Scranton. Forget about them?
And I’m summizing you don’t recall ‘A Choice Not An Echo’ or NDCIT
Cow Palace and then Atlantic City.......
Way to go, Rita; you’re on fire tonight, my friend! :-)
If Cruz tries his preacher-voice routine at Cleveland, he better be feeling fleet of foot. There will be enough gung-ho Trump fans present to put the air brakes on such a performance right quick.
If Hillary Clinton wins this election, this republic is destroyed, as she will appoint 3 SC judges.
Never Trumpers don’t care; they are good cops.; traitors.
As such, they are dead to us; they must be made pariahs and identified as exhibits A,B,C, etc. of corrupt elitism.
Trump should utterly lay waste to them in any way he can to shame them as tools of the elite, grifters, con men and liars without honor; quislings, collaborators. and cowards.
OTOH, YOU have completely ignored what I posted to you and replied with a silly rant. Tell it to the hand......
>> "There's Adam Clymer, major-league @$$hole from the New York Times.” - George W. Bush.
>>Hey Leahy...Go Eff yourself. - Dick Cheney.
SPOT ON !
From your keyboard to GOD’s eyes!
Oh be a bit “kind” to the little snowflake; he or she loves Rubio still. Obviously that poster needs help and plenty of it and perhaps some lithium. LOL
Trump called them every name in the book. Why would he want their endorsement?
I ignored what you posted because it is irrelevant.
Your ‘experience’ starts, as you say in 68.
I was active in the first Nixon campaign.
And I count myself as fortunate to have a memory.
What about your words do these idiots not understand? Even though they're pathetic and globalists and shills, even PatheticGlobalistShills should understand what you just said. And this includes EVERY SINGLE ONE of the NeverTrumpers, not just the Republican politicians who want to keep their $$ gravy train.
If they don't understand the truth of what you just said, they're just dumb as hell and don't have any business crawling out of bed everyday.
But let's say they DO understand your concept:
Does that mean they're okay with being permanently cut off from ever winning another "election?" (That's in quotation marks because it would forever be a show-election if Hillary wins. Going through the motions; kind of like what we have now, only worse!)
And let's say they're okay with never winning an "election" again:
Don't they understand what the end game looks like for "progressives" (Marxists) like Bill Ayers and every other Alinskyite who would kill off a certain percentage of the population like they SAID they would?
Don't they understand that once our Constitution is gone and we're a totalitarian country, THEY will be the first to disappear in the night, never to be seen again? Are they THAT narcissistic to think "Oh, but that would NEVER happen to me because I'm special and they need me and by golly, they LIKE me!"
Is money and power that intoxicating to these people? Haven't they ever studied history?
And last of all, do they think ANY of us would give a rat's whiney and come looking for them once we slipped to the level of Venezuela and they were suddenly viewed by The UniParty as too bothersome to keep around so they're Fostered? Look at Scalia's death... Who is digging into that weird coinkydink? Hmmmmm???
What say you, Ted Cruz? John Kasich? Carly Fiorina? Jebbie? This is from yesterday: (I'm assuming you are smart enough to read. Too big of an assumption?)
Venezuelan Government Seeking to Abolish Congress
http://freebeacon.com/issues/venezuelan-government-seeks-to-abolish-congress/
ALL of you NeverTrumpers deserve whatever happens to you. And i DO mean whatever. You are disgusting!The Venezuelan government may ask the nation’s high court to disband the legislature headed by officials opposed to President Nicolas Maduro amid an ongoing economic crisis,...
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela accused the opposition of fraud after members of congress collected signatures for a recall vote to remove Maduro from office. ...
Remember their names! If they accomplish what they want; to elect Hillary; their names will live in infamy as those who helped destroy the Republic.
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