Donald Trump: I Won’t Run as a Third Party Candidate
Donald Trump has signed GOP loyalty pledge to back party’s 2016 nominee, foregoing potential third-party bid.
Sources say that the GOP frontrunner will sign the pledge sometime on Thursday, reports the Washington Post.
Trump has seemed to target Bush more than any of the other Republican presidential candidates, suggesting he sees Bush as his main rival. “He’s willing to sign it to avert any problems with is state filings – South Carolina asked for a pledge to support the nominee if you’re on the ballot”.
There had been widespread Republican fears that a third-party run could split the vote and hand the Democrats – and frontrunner Hillary Clinton – a free ticket into the White House.
Trump’s declaration that he would not do so comes just weeks after he roiled the Republican race when, in response to the first question at the opening debate of the 2016 campaign, he refused to promise to back the party’s nominee if he failed to win the leadership.
The former Secretary of State, who is battling declining popularity ratings after it became known that she had used a private email server during her term as the top USA diplomat, also said that Republican front runner Trump is unqualified to be president.
It continues: “I further pledge that I will not seek to run as an independent or write-in candidate nor will I seek to accept the nomination for president of any other party”.
Despite this, Trump said, he will some day know the difference between the two so hard that your face will melt. The pledge, however, is not legally binding, meaning a candidate could renege on their word.
A campaign adviser said there are four main reasons Trump signed the pledge, Bloomberg Politics reported.
A Republican National Committee official said: “This gets the proverbial elephant out of the room and allows the focus to be on winning the White House“.
In seeking to rework the deal, Trump said he would make it “so tough” that “if they break it, they will have hell to pay”.
The Republican presidential front-runner says he didn’t want to be treated differently than anyone else, all he wanted was fairness. That’s much bigger news to me than the fact that Trump won’t go third party.
If Donald Trump truly wants to make America great again, he’s going to have to do it as a Republican…at least on paper.
The scuffle was a result of his security taking anti-Trump signs from protesters, some of which were dressed as Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members, who stood along a Fifth Avenue sidewalk.