{"id":202941,"date":"2016-03-30T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=202941"},"modified":"2016-03-30T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:44:08","slug":"trump-withdraws-nominee-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/trump-withdraws-nominee-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump withdraws nominee pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
US Republican front-runner Donald Trump has dropped his pledge to support the party candidate if he does not win the nomination for the November election.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump’s rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, refused to say outright whether they would unite behind a nominee.<\/p>\n
All the Republican candidates signed a loyalty pledge last November.<\/p>\n
It is the latest sign of friction between Mr Trump and Mr Cruz, who have been embroiled in a dispute involving each other’s wives.<\/p>\n
A committee supporting Mr Cruz published a nude photo of Mr Trump’s wife Melania from 2000. In retaliation, Mr Trump tweeted an unflattering picture of Mr Cruz’s wife Heidi.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump claims he has been “treated very unfairly” by Republican party leaders – some have expressed disquiet or downright opposition to him winning the nomination.<\/p>\n
To a question about whether he maintained his loyalty pledge from last November, Mr Trump said: “No, I do not any more.”<\/p>\n
At the time of the pledge, Trump had said: “I have no intention of changing my mind.”<\/p>\n