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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

Chris Christie slams GOP debate pledge as a ‘useless idea’ as he doubles down on plans to take on ‘loser, loser, loser’ Trump

REUTERS

Chris Christie became the latest Republican to publicly trash the decisions of his party’s leadership this week when he laid into the pledge that GOP bigwigs are requiring participants in the 2024 debate cycle to sign.

Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, the ex-New Jersey governor seemed to indicate that he had signed the pledge — which states that any participant in the GOP debates will support the party’s eventual nominee — merely in order to make it onstage, while alluding to the idea that he would not hesitate to break it.

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