Many of us thought it was a matter of time.
Last September, in front of the press and before the deadline to qualify for the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump held up a signed “loyalty pledge” and said he would support the Republican nominee, even if it wasn’t him.
At the time (by the way, it had the wrong date on it) the loyalty pledge was a pretty big deal because his opponents claimed Trump would run a third party campaign if he wasn’t the GOP nominee.
Six months later, Trump tonight told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he would no longer honor that pledge.
Asked by Cooper if he stood by the earlier pledge, Trump said: “No, I don’t.”
“We’ll see who it is,” he followed up.
Trump says he’s been treated “unfairly” by the Republican National Committee and the GOP establishment.
No one is shocked. But he knew when he signed it he wouldn’t stick to it. And that’s just fundamentally dishonest.
Reneging on the pledge, however, now gives Reince Pribus, and the RNC, the hammer they need to play hardball with him at the GOP convention.