>> look, i think the pledge is just a useless idea, jake, and by the way, in all my life we never had to have republican primary candidates take a pledge. you know, we are republicans and idea is you support the republican whether you won and you lost and you didn't have to ask someone to sign something. it is only the era of donald trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge. so i think it's a bad idea. i've expressed that to ron and romney mcdaniel personally, directly. this is not the first time she's hearing it, but look, i will do what i need to do to be up on the stage to ...