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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: 20182
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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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
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Without Trump there would be no debates but only an array of politicians hiding in a cloud of evasive dialogue spiced with occasional wit and trying to pretend there's a real difference among them. Kelly hit Thrump with a question containing unproven presupositions and it pissed Trump off. It's the old, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" trick in which the question is really an accusation. Trump is not very well schooled in the techniques of advocacy or he would have handled it much better. He's a business man and builder, not a lawyer or theologin.
LOL some Aussie on another site has this as his tagline.
There have been too many debates already. By deciding to put Megan Kelly back there after the last fiasco, Fox News was planning a Pearl Harbor. Trump avoided that by refusing to play ball. So now Fox will have an unwatched debate, and the debating seasons is effectively ended. Voting starts shortly in Iowa, and Trump is going to win that. And that will be that. By going after the future President, NR and Fox have damaged their brands to a degree that they will never fully recover. What works against a dependent dwarf does not work against Trump.
But the smearing season continues and the elitists must derail Trump.
#9. To: rlk (#8)
They WANT to derail Trump, but they can't. They can't because there are too many of us middle class and working class people who have been right royally screwed by Republican economics and Democrat racialism. Trump has been in our living rooms with us for two decades. We know him. We like him. We like the fact that they DON'T like him. It gives us hope. So, we're going to put him in office. And then the question will be whether or not he really is what he appears to be. If he is, his policies will start to build back up the middle class and working class. He will get the money to do it from the elites, involuntarily, through taxation and regulation. So the elites are fighting him frantically because they recognize that he is going to really hurt them when he gets power. They will have less money, less power, less influence. We haven't had a reversal like this since FDR won the Election of 1932, when the people completely repudiated the Republican Establishment. This time, the people are repudiating BOTH Establishments. The good news (for Republicans) is that Trump is running as a Republican, so as the future unfolds, decades in the future they will get the electoral benefit of Trump's success. But for now, they are standing with their old moneymen, even as a rip-tide of the people changes the rules of the game. Trump is going to cut the nuts off the elite once he wins, by targeting their source of power: their money.
But the smearing season continues and the elitists must derail Trump. Trump effectively squelched any opposition to him leading up to the Iowa vote. His polling firms must think he has it in the bag or at least will get enough delegates to make it a wash (no one else gets more than he does). So now Cruz will be the target. In some ways Trump did Cruz a favor as Cruz will mop the floor with JEB! and that little annoyance will be gone. This also gives more time for Rubio to engage JEB! and Christie. Finally, with Trump not there I believe Rand will get a strong voice in the debate as he can be very engaging when not shouted down.
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#6. To: hondo68 (#2)
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#8. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
the debating season is effectively ended
Replies to Comment # 8. But the smearing season continues and the elitists must derail Trump.
#13. To: rlk, Vicomte13, TooConservative (#8)
the debating season is effectively ended
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