republican activist gary tyler says the state central committee did the right thing this weekend unanimously voting to pull the plug. i think that was a mistaken idea of trying to make sure that only republicans that is a baby and our nominating process the state's gop as talked about a pledge for years and this past september officially signed off the rover acquired those voting in the republican primary to promise to vote for the republican nominee in the fall but many feared this would alienate independents by all means we won independence to be involved the pledge also drew national attention republican frontrunner donald trump sent a flurry of tweets calling it bad and suicidal for the republicans old dominion university political professor jesse richmond says the pledge runs contrary to the state's open primary you're going to have an open primary here to make people sign that they are a republican to hold people to their word on and knowing you should be able to well a board of elections told the officials are meeting with the attorney general this week to figure out what to do about

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