{"id":1998987,"date":"2023-08-12T19:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-out-trump-for-refusing-to-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-its-not-just-about-you\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:04:56","slug":"desantis-calls-out-trump-for-refusing-to-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-its-not-just-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-out-trump-for-refusing-to-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-its-not-just-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis criticizes Trump for rejecting GOP loyalty pledge: &#8216;It&#8217;s not only about you&#8217;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdesantis-calls-out-trump-for-refusing-to-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-its-not-just-about-you%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=1998987&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>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Slams Donald Trump for Refusing to\u200d Sign &#8220;Beat Biden Pledge&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Florida\u200c Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> didn&#8217;t hold back in\u2062 criticizing \u2063former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u200dfor his refusal to sign the Republican Party&#8217;s &#8220;Beat\u2063 Biden\u2063 Pledge.&#8221; \u200dThis pledge requires\u200d candidates to \u200dcommit to supporting whoever wins the party&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christie-says-trump-is-a-liar-and-coward-as-gop-candidates-prepare-for-presidential-debate\/\" title=\"Christie slams Trump as a 'lying coward' ahead of GOP debate.\">presidential\u200b primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis,\u200c who is currently second only to Trump in the GOP primary race, expressed \u200bhis disappointment\u200c while speaking to reporters in Iowa. He emphasized the\u200d contradiction in Trump&#8217;s stance,\u2063 stating, &#8220;You can&#8217;t,\u200b on the one hand,\u2062 say that the country&#8217;s\u2062 going \u200cin such a \u200bbad direction, which we all believe, and then, on the other hand,\u200d say you&#8217;re just\u200d going to take your ball and go home. I&#8217;m happy to do that. I&#8217;ve voted Republican my whole life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis continued, highlighting the importance of unity and a larger mission, saying, &#8220;Even though I&#8217;m confident we&#8217;ll be the nominee, at the \u200bend of the day, you respect the \u200djudgment of how\u2063 this works out, \u200dand you don&#8217;t take your ball and go home. It&#8217;s not just about you. It&#8217;s about a larger mission that we have to accomplish\u200d for Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2064 says he\u200c signed the pledge to support eventual nominee ahead \u2064of \u200bfirst debate in Milwaukee: &#8220;You can&#8217;t on the one hand say the country is going in \u200dsuch a\u2062 bad direction which\u200b we all believe and on the other hand say you&#8217;re just \u2064going to take your ball and go home?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OrMyVPEb08\">pic.twitter.com\/OrMyVPEb08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattsmith_news\/status\/1690147639512502275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August\u2063 11,\u2063 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump, in an interview with Eric Bolling on\u200d Newsmax, expressed \u2062his reservations \u200babout signing the pledge, stating, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t sign the pledge. Why \u200cwould I sign a pledge? There are people on there that I wouldn&#8217;t have.&#8221; He \u200cfurther added, \u200b&#8221;I wouldn&#8217;t have certain people\u2064 as, you know, somebody that I endorse. So\u200c they want you to sign a \u2063pledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE\u2062 TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Trump did not specify which candidates he would never endorse, he did criticize Governor Ron DeSantis,\u200d former Governor Chris Christie, and former Governor Asa Hutchinson during \u200bthe \u200binterview.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Beat Biden Pledge&#8221; that candidates must sign states, in part: &#8220;Additionally, I affirm that if \u2062I do not\u200d win the 2024 Republican nomination for President of the United States, I will honor the\u200b will \u2064of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-asks-tim-scott-the-toughest-question-that-the-elite-will-absolutely-hate\/\" title=\"Tucker poses a tough question to Tim Scott, one that the elite will despise.\">primary\u2064 voters<\/a> and support the\u200c nominee in\u200d order to save our \u2064country and beat Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s participation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-out-trump-for-refusing-to-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-its-not-just-about-you\/\" title=\"DeSantis criticizes Trump for rejecting GOP loyalty pledge: 'It's not only about you'\">upcoming debates remains uncertain<\/a>. The\u2063 Daily Wire reached out to the Republican National Committee (RNC) for clarification on whether Trump would \u200dbe allowed \u200bto participate without signing the pledge. The RNC\u2063 referred to a statement made by chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, emphasizing that all candidates must sign the pledge and\u200c that intent to support\u2063 the nominee is crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized ex-President Donald Trump for not signing the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;Beat Biden Pledge.&#8221; DeSantis, currently second to Trump in the primary race, expressed disappointment as all candidates are polling in low single digits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1998988,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1998987","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}