A Party Divided

Trump, Cruz, and Kasich Leave Republican Loyalty Oath in Tatters

The remaining GOP candidates for president each sounded sour notes on whether they would support whoever wins the party’s presidential nomination.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes part in a CNN town hall event on March 29, 2016, in Milwaukee.

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Consider the Republican National Committee’s loyalty pledge all but dead.

All three of the remaining Republican presidential candidates said Tuesday at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee that they no longer feel beholden to the loyalty pledge they signed in September not to run as a third-party candidate and to support the party’s presidential nominee.