GOP Prexy Debate Pledge "Useless," Says Christie

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said it was a “useless idea” to force 2024 GOP contenders to sign a pledge to back the party’s ultimate nominee in order to join primary debates, Andrew Millman and Shawna Mizelle reported for CNN.

Photo Insert: Christie said he’s expressed his views directly to RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, “so this is not the first time she’s hearing it.”

“It’s only in the era of Donald Trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge. So, I think it’s a bad idea,” the former New Jersey governor told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” about the Republican National Committee requirement.

Christie said he’s expressed his views directly to RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, “so this is not the first time she’s hearing it.”

But he affirmed that he would do what was needed “to be up on the stage to try to save my party and save my country from going down the road of being led by three-time loser Donald Trump” – saying the former president cost the party the House in 2018 and the White House and Senate in 2020, and was responsible for “the worst midterm performance we have seen in a long, long time” in 2022, CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi and Kate Sullivan also reported.

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