Chris Christie says RNC loyalty pledge is a 'useless idea'

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who's running for the GOP presidential nomination, on Sunday called the Republican National Committee’s requirement for candidates to pledge support for the eventual nominee a “useless idea.”

In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Christie said “I think the pledge is just a useless idea" when he was asked whether he'd pledge to support Donald Trump, the party’s front-runner, even if the former president is convicted of a felony.

“And by the way, in all my life, we never had to have Republican primary candidates take a pledge,” he said. “You know, we were Republicans. And the idea is you’d support the Republican whether you won or whether you lost. And you didn’t have to ask somebody to sign something.

“It’s only the era of Donald Trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge,” Christie added. “So I think it’s a bad idea,”

A spokesperson for the RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.