A former senior advisor to Donald Trump thinks the Republican presidential front-runner should ask his delegates to promise to support him on every ballot at a contested convention by having them sign a loyalty pledge.
“We’re going to produce a voluntary loyalty pledge that will say, if you’re a Trump delegate, that you’ll stick with Trump through all the ballots to reflect the will of the voters,” veteran GOP strategist Roger Stone told Rolling Stone in an interview published Monday.
“We’ll ask them to sign. It’s voluntary, but we’ll see who does it, and who the cockroaches are,” he added.
Stone, who has been banned from appearing on CNN or MSNBC, recently threatened to “disclose the hotel and the room numbers” of delegates who choose to support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or Ohio Gov. John Kasich after the first ballot at a multi-ballot convention.
“If you’re from Pennsylvania, we’ll tell you who the culprits are. We urge you to visit their hotel and find them,” he said during a radio interview earlier this month.
Stone is no longer affiliated with the Trump campaign, but that hasn’t stopped him from forcefully pushing a message that is nearly identical to Trump’s about the delegate selection process in several states.
“This is what I call the big steal,” Stone told Rolling Stone. “I don’t mean Trump falls short of 1,237 delegates and they won’t give him the nomination. What I’ve said is, Trump has the 1,237 votes until they unseat his delegates somewhere or play some other legal trickery to steal it from him.”
