{"id":1955691,"date":"2023-06-23T18:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T22:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-hurd-refuses-to-sign-rnc-pledge-to-back-republican-nominee-not-going-to-support-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T22:48:27","slug":"will-hurd-refuses-to-sign-rnc-pledge-to-back-republican-nominee-not-going-to-support-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-hurd-refuses-to-sign-rnc-pledge-to-back-republican-nominee-not-going-to-support-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Hurd declines to sign RNC pledge, won&#8217;t support Trump."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-hurd-refuses-to-sign-rnc-pledge-to-back-republican-nominee-not-going-to-support-donald-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1955691&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Texas Representative Will Hurd Refuses to Sign RNC Loyalty Pledge<\/h2>\n<p>Former Texas representative and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-teases-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Candace Owens Teases Presidential Run\">2024 presidential candidate<\/a>, Will Hurd, has made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metoo-tweets-from-andrew-cuomo-that-aged-horribly\/\" title=\"#MeToo Tweets From Andrew Cuomo That Aged Horribly\">bold statement<\/a> by refusing to agree to the Republican National Committee&#8217;s requirement to endorse the 2024 nominee in order to participate in the upcoming debates.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC has implemented a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcdaniel-says-trump-will-have-to-make-loyalty-pledge-to-join-rnc-debate-stage\/\" title=\"McDaniel Says Trump Will Have to Make \"Loyalty Pledge\" to Join RNC Debate Stage\">loyalty pledge<\/a>, stating that Republican candidates must support the eventual nominee if they wish to debate onstage in August. However, Hurd spoke out against this pledge, expressing his belief that parties should not be manipulating the debate stage.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent CNN interview, Hurd stated, &#8220;I am not in the business of lying to the American people in order to get a microphone, and I\u2019m not going to support Donald Trump. And so I can\u2019t honestly say I\u2019m going to sign something even if he may or may not be the nominee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hurd firmly believes that political parties should not be involved in rigging the process of determining who gets to participate in the debates. He took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> to reiterate his refusal to sign the pledge, emphasizing that allegiance should be to the United States, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">political leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the RNC&#8217;s stance, Hurd remains committed to fulfilling the debate requirements without compromising his principles. He wrote on social media, &#8220;I&#8217;m working to fulfill the debate requirements, but I&#8217;m not going to lie to the American people or my party for the sake of a microphone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel had informed 2024 GOP aspirants about the requirement in April. She argued that it is essential for candidates to support the GOP nominee, questioning the purpose of hosting a debate without every candidate pledging their support to &#8220;whoever the voters choose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hurd is not alone in his criticism of the requirement. Former President Donald Trump and former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) have also pushed back on this commitment. Hutchinson suggested that the party should instead ask candidates to promise not to mount a third-party challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The first debate is scheduled to take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Fox News selected as the moderator.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Texas representative and 2024 presidential candidate Will Hurd refuses to comply with the Republican National Committee&#8217;s demand to endorse the 2024 nominee in order to participate in the upcoming debate. The RNC&#8217;s loyalty pledge mandates that Republican candidates must back the eventual nominee to secure a spot on the August debate stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1955692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}