RNC not backing off its 'loyalty pledge' debate requirement after Trump's latest indictment
Top Republican Party officials have a message for any candidate worried about signing a loyalty pledge to potentially support a convicted felon: There’s the door.
Members of RNC leadership arranged a call with Hutchinson on Thursday, but the former governor himself did not take part in the conversation, only a staff member. During the brief call, RNC leaders declined to make any changes to debate requirements and told the staffer the committee is “not dealing with hypotheticals” on Trump’s legal fate. One of the individuals with knowledge of the call described it as “contentious.
Though it’s unclear if Hutchinson would meet the other qualifications for the debate in August, the back and forth between the campaign and RNC highlights the conundrum the latter is in. Forcing candidates to pledge loyalty to one another may appear to be squarely in the party’s interest. But with the former president’s lengthy list of legal battles hovering over next year’s campaign it now carries some risk, including to the committee’s commitment to neutrality in the primary.
“They need to put a little rationality to what is said in that oath or that pledge,” Hutchinson continued, referring to the RNC. A spokesperson for Chris Christie’s campaign, meanwhile, said the former New Jersey governor has been “pretty clear on his thoughts around the pledge and any future support for Trump — conviction or not.”
Some lower-polling and lesser-known candidates in the field, including Hutchinson, are struggling to reach minimum donor and polling thresholds. Hutchinson on Wednesday declined to say how many donors he had secured in his bid, but noted that the RNC donor requirements were exponentially larger than the number he needed in his successful statewide races. He won his last gubernatorial race with 65 percent of the vote — and fewer than 3,000 donors.
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