donald trump that you need somebody to sign something. i think it is a bad idea. i won t be signing any kind of pledges and i don t think that parties should be trying to rig who should be on the debate stage. i don t think the pledges good, i don t think it is the right thing for the party. i think it is meaningless at this point. are you standing firm on this? if you want to participate in the republican presidential debate, you have to sign this loyalty pledge. it is the beat biden pledge and what we are saying, and the debate committee has met for over two years, people from alexa to illinois to tennessee, if you re going to stand on the republican national committee debate stage you re going to make sure that our number one priority is beating joe biden. so if you don t want to support the republican nominee, go run independent. go run for a different party. this is the republican party nomination and you should be able to support the nominee. are you saying even donald
debates you have to sign this loyalty pledge? it s the beat bide pledge. and what we re saying and the debate committee has met for over two years people from alaska to illinois to tennessee is if you re going to stand on the national republican committee debate stage you re going to make sure your number one priority is beating joe biden. if you don t want to support the republican nominee go run independent or run for a different party. but this is the republican party nomination and you should be able to support the nominee. are you saying even donald trump? everybody has to sign the beat biden pledge. everybody. it s across the board. the rules aren t changing. we ve been very vocal with them. what about somebody like governor chris christie who says i ll sign it and take it as seriously as donald trump did in 2016? it s not just the pledge, not just a piece of paper. intent is going to be part of it, too. i think the debate committees are going to meet. and they don t wa
sara? we are a month away from first republican presidential debate, and it is not clear which republicans will be on the stage. one thing that row na mcdaniel must agree the back the e loyalty pledge. are you standing by this? yes, it is the beat biden pledge, and people have said from illinois to alaska to tennessee, if you are standing on the republican debate stage, you should support the nominee. are you saying even donald trump? yes, and it is the rules that are not changing. we have been very vocal to them. and if the frontrunner
today there is an escalating debate over the debate, the rnc is not budging on what it calls the beat biden pledge requiring candidates to promise to support whoever wins the republican nomination. this candidate pledge to enter the debate stage, you have to pledge to support the nominee, totally agree with you in principle. kristy calls it a useless idea, trump, i don t think you ll ever get him to sign that pledge. do you think he ll have to do away with this pledge in order to not have one person debating themselves? it s the republican party nomination and the pledge is staying, and anybody who wants to seek the nomination of our party should pledge to support the voters. if you go through this process and you take time on the debate stage, and you re going to be there, the number one pledge should be beat biden. it s called the beat biden pledge for a reason. at the end of the day, we all have to be united in one thing. if we can t commit who we re going to support who the vot
i think the field keeps growing. we are getting into the summer, the august debate is looming in milwaukee. i think a lot of these candidates are having to get in if they think they will make the debate stage on how it will happen and how candidates can make the debate stage. dana: will you make the requirements more stringent than in 2016? you know, i think they are very fair requirements and they will increase and escalate in subsequent debates. i think the most important and the one that gets the most attention is the beat biden pledge. we need to remember at the end of this after a bruising primary and everybody fighting the get the nomination we get to come together as a party and focus on winning the white house. we can t change anything unless we win and can govern. that s a critical component for every candidate to pledge to beat biden and support the eventual nominee. bill: do you know the actor