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Title: Trump team says he'll ditch Thursday's GOP debate (afraid to face Megyn Kelly)
Source:
USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... thursdays-gop-debate/79371610/
Published: Jan 26, 2016
Author: David Jackson
Post Date: 2016-01-26 19:51:08 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 22584
Comments: 65
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Farmington High School on Jan. 25, 2016, in Farmington, N.H. (Photo: John Minchillo, AP) Protesting "wise guy" comments from Fox News about his criticism of anchor Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump said Tuesday he likely won't participate in Thursday's Republican debate -- and his campaign manager said later the GOP front-runner would in fact skip the event. "Most likely, I'm not going to be doing the debate," Trump told reporters before a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa. Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, later told reporters that the businessman would definitely not participate, and said it is not a matter of negotiation. Trump has threatened a debate boycott all week, describing Kelly as a "lightweight" who is biased against him. Trump's criticism led to pushback from Fox News, including one statement from the network earlier Tuesday that drew the businessman's ire: “We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.” Citing that statement, Trump said that Fox is "playing games" and that he will do an event for wounded warriors instead of Thursday's debate. Trump has attacked Kelly since an Aug. 6 debate in which the Fox anchor asked him about statements demeaning women. Kelly has declined to respond to Trump's attacks, but Fox has defended her and insisted she be part of the debate. Earlier this week, Fox said: "Megyn Kelly has no conflict of interest. Donald Trump is just trying to build up the audience for Thursday's debate, for which we thank him." Poster Comment: There are 7 participants left who can take turns explaining The Donald's problems. That should be fun. Plus the 4 in the kiddie debate. 
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#10. To: hondo68 (#0)
Cruz has challenged Ducking Donald to a one on one debate . But I don't think Trump will do it . If he can't handle Megyn Kelly.................
#11. To: tomder55 (#10)
He won't do it, because there is nothing in it for him. Cruz was a college debate team guy. He debates well. The Presidency isn't about debating, it's about execution. Trump is a master at execution. One aspect of being an executive is to know when to cut off the jaw-jaw, because it serves no positive purpose. There have already been a lot of debates. Everybody already knows the differences between Trump and Cruz. Trump will win in Iowa, and that will be the end of Cruz, so why go debate Cruz in a one-on-one format, where Cruz will look great, because he's been a debate team guy all his life? No reason to. The big "Republican Debate" was sort of an obligatory thing, but then Fox decided to load it up with "get Trump" stuff, including Megan Kelly. Megan Kelly was out of line in the first debate. There is no reason at all that Trump should put up with her again. There is no advantage to Donald in going in there to get shit on by a bitch who has already made it clear she hates him, and who will control the questions and microphone. So he wisely decided "Nope", and that's that. You have already made up your mind on Trump - you don't like him. Since he will be the Republican nominee, you're going to have the choice between voting for a man you've spent months hating, voting for Hillary or for Sanders, or staying home.
Saw that. I agree he won't do it. He is ahead and has no reason to do it.
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Replies to Comment # 10. Cruz has challenged Ducking Donald to a one on one debate . But I don't think Trump will do it . If he can't handle Megyn Kelly.................
#14. To: tomder55 (#10)
Cruz has challenged Ducking Donald to a one on one debate . But I don't think Trump will do it .
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