“We have to respect the will of our Republican voters,” Alvarez said. “Whoever they choose [in the primaries]. We have to get behind them, and we can’t take our eye off the prize. Our [RNC] chairwoman [Ronna] McDaniel — I can’t say it any better — [says] we have to be united. The goal is to defeat Joe Biden.
“Everyone’s got to buckle up,” she added. “I think it’s going to be pretty exciting to see the campaign get underway and we’re certainly going to see a lot of blunders from the President and the Vice President.”
Gidley warned, however, “some drama” in the primaries is “inevitable.”
[True enough, but this ‘pledge’ is entirely unenforceable. The only way to keep candidates from sore-loser abandonment of the party is to construct painful disincentives for it. And even then, whatever substantive disincentives that get created would come so late as to evoke the old saying about barn doors. This is a quadrennial problem for the party out of power, and if there was an easy solution to it, we’d already have it in place. — Ed]
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