Chris Christie calls GOP loyalty pledge for 2024 nominee ‘useless idea’

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on Sunday slammed his celebration’s requirement that White House hopefuls vow to help the eventual nominee in the event that they wish to make the talk stage within the crowded main discipline.

“I think the pledge is just a useless idea,” the previous New Jersey governor mentioned on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And by the way, in all my life, we never had to have Republican primary candidates take a pledge. We were Republicans, and the idea is you’d support the Republican whether you won or whether you lost, and you didn’t have to ask somebody to sign something.”

Fellow GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, former Arkansas governor, was rebuffed by the celebration when he sought a carve-out for the loyalty pledge if the nominee is convicted of a criminal offense amid expenses towards former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling categorized paperwork at his Mar-a-Lago house after leaving workplace.

Mr. Christie, an anti-Trump Republican and frequent critic of his personal celebration, mentioned he’s advised Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel the pledge is “a bad idea.”

He went on to take a jab at Mr. Trump, who can also be working once more for president, by saying he’ll take this cycle’s loyalty pledge “just as seriously as Donald Trump took it in 2016.” Mr. Trump, earlier than being nominated in 2016, refused to decide to supporting the eventual nominee.