Less than a week after enacting a controversial loyalty oath requirement in order to participate in their primary, the Virginia Republican Party has reversed course and voted to cancel the rule. The oath would have required primary voters to sign in writing that they intend to vote for the eventual Republican presidential nominee.

"We want to attract people to the Republican Party," said Fairfax County Republican Committee chairman Jim Hyland. "The perception was that it was more of a closed-door policy, and we want an open-door policy."