WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Republican presidential debate scheduled for next week in Utah has been canceled, host Fox News said on Wednesday, after party front-runner Donald Trump told the network he would not participate.
Trump, who has clashed with Fox News throughout his campaign, told the network in an interview on Wednesday he would not appear at the event, scheduled for Monday, because he thought the Republicans had "had enough debates."
Ohio Governor John Kasich said afterward he would also skip the debate unless Trump changed his mind and decided to come.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the third remaining Republican candidate seeking the party's nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election, criticized Trump on Twitter, calling him #DuckingDonald and urging his supporters to tell Trump to attend.
"He's scared to debate," Cruz said in an interview on Fox News. "He's afraid of being challenged."
Fox News, part of the Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) broadcast media and entertainment company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, earlier this week announced the debate, to be held in Salt Lake City, its latest in the primary season. Utah holds its presidential primary next Tuesday.
"Ted Cruz has expressed a willingness to debate Trump or Kasich - or both. But obviously, there needs to be more than one participant," Fox News Channel’s executive vice president of news, Michael Clemente, said in a statement. "So the Salt Lake City debate is canceled."
After the cancellation, Trump posted on Twitter that he would make a "big speech" the night of the debate, "but I wish everyone well."
#107: Roscoe To: SOSO (#106)
With an emotional lie.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:23:53 Reply Private Reply
#108: SOSO To: Roscoe (#107)
What is my lie?
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:24:39 Reply Private Reply
#109: misterwhite To: Roscoe (#107)
Hey, hey. It's not a lie if he believes it.
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-18 18:25:47 Reply Private Reply
#110: Roscoe To: SOSO (#108)
Double down.
BTW:
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:27:10 Reply Private Reply
#111: Roscoe To: misterwhite (#109)
True that.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:28:30 Reply Private Reply
#112: SOSO To: misterwhite, roscoe (#99)
Here is the headline of this thread "After Trump pulls out, Fox News cancels Republican debate."
If he never accepted the invitation shouldn't that read Trump declines invitation rather than pulls out? Pulling out literally mean that he was once in, doesn't now?
LMAO.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:29:53 Reply Private Reply
#113: Roscoe To: SOSO (#112)
Yes. Nice foot shot.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:31:56 Reply Private Reply
#114: SOSO To: Roscoe (#110)
Where is the lie? Where is the untruth? C'mon now, you are a smart guy and should be able to expose little old me.
I remind you that like posters, symbols are for the symbol minded.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:34:18 Reply Private Reply
#115: Roscoe To: SOSO (#114)
Some of your MoveOn buddies?
"If the evidence was presented in a court of law there is no reasonable doubt that Trump lied about not knowing of the Fox debate prior to March 9th."
Triple down.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:36:09 Reply Private Reply
#116: SOSO To: Roscoe (#113)
Shouldn't you have addressed that to misterwhite?
#99. To: SOSO (#96)
"The network was slow to confirm the debate’s cancellation because Clemente was still trying to persuade Trump to participate."
If Trump had previously agreed to participate in the debate -- as you say he did -- that's an odd way to phrase it.
If you're correct, shouldn't that read, "... the network was slow to confirm the debate’s cancellation because Clemente was still trying to persuade Trump to participate not to cancel"?
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-18 17:37:26 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
LMAO. There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:36:34 Reply Private Reply
#117: Roscoe To: SOSO (#116)
No.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:37:13 Reply Private Reply
#118: SOSO To: Roscoe (#117)
Oh, I see. Trump dupes stick together.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:38:38 Reply Private Reply
#119: SOSO To: Roscoe (#117)
I see sarcasm doesn't escape your keen intellect. Nor is intellectual honesty your strong point.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:39:48 Reply Private Reply
#120: Roscoe To: SOSO (#118)
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 18:40:27 Reply Private Reply
#121: SOSO To: Roscoe (#120)
Of course. I should have known. You just lost. Bye, Mary.
There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 18:43:16 Reply Private Reply
#122: Tooconservative To: SOSO (#121)
Since you know they are unpersuadeable by any factual presentation, maybe you just enjoy all that typing. : )
Tooconservative posted on 2016-03-18 20:30:35 Reply Private Reply
#123: Roscoe To: TooConservative (#122)
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-18 20:41:51 Reply Private Reply
#124: SOSO To: TooConservative (#122)
For the most part depantsing intellectual bankrupts is akin to pulling the wings of flies but sometimes it is fun. If you note I only chime in on them when there is an event, as was today with Romney, that highlights either Trump the con man or Trump the destroyer of the REP Party (as with Trump's response to Romney) or when they post something really stupid even for a Trumpkin.
But it really isn't the Trumpkin dupes that is at the heart of my feelings, it's the state of our society. It's the division that seems to grow wider each day without a glimmer of hope that this election will do anything but exploit and widen the rift. It is what I see as the inevitable future of the country. It's the sin and self-destructiveness of believing in false Gods.
Trump wants to make America great again - can any two people agree on what that means? Hillary wants to make America whole again - can any two people agree on what that means? We are all dupes of a sort. It makes me sad. I have no expectation that anything said to the Trumpkins gadflies or Hillary's useful idots or Bernie's Stalinistas or Cruz's Purists will change anyone's thinking .
Shame on me but I am beginning to think that the wisest man on the planet was H.L. Menckin - and he was such a cynical godless bastard. Then I think it might be Lily Tomlin who said "No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." How did the country become so f*cked up?
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 23:04:58 Reply Private Reply
#125: SOSO To: Roscoe (#123)
Panties still in a bunch, Mary?
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 23:05:31 Reply Private Reply
#126: nolu chan To: SOSO (#101)
No. That is so terminally stupid that I am surprised you would suggest that it happened.
Until March 14, no firm decision was made on the venue, specific date, specific time, or who would be sponsoring the event. When all was confirmed, only then could the event be officially anounced.
The February action of penciling in a debate in February was no more than the RNC determining to have another debate with a venue, time, place, and sponsor to be determined.
The problem with this declarative crap is that the underlined portion is creative bullshit. That decision was made in mid-March for March 21.
nolu chan posted on 2016-03-19 00:35:52 Reply Private Reply
#127: SOSO To: nolu chan, misterwhite, roscoe (#126)
I didn't, this what Trump claimed. He stated that he had no knowledge of the Salt Lake City debate on March 9 when he accepted the engagement at AIPAC. That is so terminally stupid a statement by him that you know that it is a lie. He knew about the SLC debate well before March 9 and likely said he would participate in it sometime in Feb. He just chickened out when it became clear that it would just be three of them and peed his pants when he found out that one of them would be Cruz.
FTR misterwhite and Roscoe believe Trump's story. Now that is terminally stupid.
There is no hope for Trump dupes.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 02:17:00 Reply Private Reply
#128: nolu chan To: SOSO (#127)
It was not announced until March 14th. Trump and Kasich declined to accept the invitation which did not exist until March 14th.
Keep trying.
nolu chan posted on 2016-03-19 02:21:22 Reply Private Reply
#129: misterwhite To: SOSO (#112)
Headlines are written by editors, not writers.
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-19 10:15:31 Reply Private Reply
#130: Roscoe To: misterwhite (#129)
Stop. You'll make her cry.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-19 11:59:39 Reply Private Reply
#131: calcon To: SOSO (#127)
Trump kicked paul's little boy's ass and you clowns can't get over it.
calcon posted on 2016-03-19 12:06:38 Reply Private Reply
#132: calcon To: Rosco, misterwhite (#130)
go TRUMP
calcon posted on 2016-03-19 12:09:21 Reply Private Reply
#133: SOSO To: calcon, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#132)
LMAO. There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 12:37:46 Reply Private Reply
#134: SOSO To: calcon, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#133)
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 12:38:29 Reply Private Reply
#135: buckeroo To: calcon (#132)
I wish he would GO ... away. He is a loud mouth only obsessed with himself.
buckeroo posted on 2016-03-19 12:47:51 Reply Private Reply
#136: calcon To: buckeroo (#135)
I know bucky but I still like you anyway.
calcon posted on 2016-03-19 12:51:59 Reply Private Reply
#137: calcon To: SOSO, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#134)
calcon posted on 2016-03-19 12:53:20 Reply Private Reply
#138: buckeroo To: calcon (#136)
buckeroo posted on 2016-03-19 13:38:40 Reply Private Reply
#139: SOSO To: calcon, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#137)
You intelligence matches you gullibility.
But you are the same guys that got Obama elected. How has that worked out for you?
There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 13:56:29 Reply Private Reply
#140: buckeroo To: SOSO (#139)
Well ... they could be looking for a free baseball cap:
buckeroo posted on 2016-03-19 14:03:48 Reply Private Reply
#141: Roscoe To: calcon (#137)
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-19 14:29:15 Reply Private Reply
#142: SOSO To: buckeroo (#140)
LOL. Dollar Donald never does anything for free.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 16:35:14 Reply Private Reply
#143: buckeroo To: SOSO, Fred Mertz (#142)
That is exactly Fred's opinion.
buckeroo posted on 2016-03-19 16:37:53 Reply Private Reply
#144: SOSO To: buckeroo, Fred Metz (#143)
For once Fred is right:)
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 16:39:05 Reply Private Reply
#145: Fred Mertz To: SOSO (#144)
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-03-19 16:41:50 Reply Private Reply
#146: SOSO To: Fred Mertz (#145)
Naw, you'll only lose it.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 16:42:48 Reply Private Reply
#147: calcon To: SOSO, buckeroo (#142)
wake up silly geese, that why we want him making the "DEALS" for us.
your GOP/DNCe crap just doesn't mean diddly squat to we trump supports.
calcon posted on 2016-03-19 17:01:59 Reply Private Reply
#148: Hondo68 To: calcon, TrumpTards, to FEMA camps (#147)
You Trumptards will be the first to go to the FEMA camps. The Donald ain't gonna leave y'all running around loose.
It's the first step in making America great again. Lose the morons.
Hondo68 posted on 2016-03-19 17:43:47 Reply Private Reply
#149: calcon To: hondo68 (#148)
we did, ron paul out of it, baby rand totally embarrassed and forced to leave by trump
calcon posted on 2016-03-19 17:47:55 Reply Private Reply
#150: SOSO To: calcon, buckeroo (#147)
Oh, you want to be like the dupes that he left holding the bag of his bankrupt companies. Well OK then, knock yourself out.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-19 18:24:46 Reply Private Reply
#151: nolu chan To: SOSO, calcon, Rosco, misterwhite (#139)
If you say so. You must be the guy who keeps figuring out a way to back a loser. How's that working out for you?
nolu chan posted on 2016-03-22 17:35:15 Reply Private Reply
#152: SOSO To: nolu chan (#151)
I didn't stay home last election like you and your "principled" losers. We made sure that we all lost and f*cked us all.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-22 17:51:41 Reply Private Reply
#153: calcon To: SOSO (#152)
thanks for admitting to f*cking things up.
calcon posted on 2016-03-22 18:34:04 Reply Private Reply
#154: SOSO To: calcon (#153)
Got brains?
SOSO posted on 2016-03-22 19:24:59 Reply Private Reply
#155: nolu chan To: SOSO (#152)
When offered the choice of two turds, I chose neither. Different people have different standards. I will not vote for another GOP establishment turdburger.
nolu chan posted on 2016-03-23 18:51:02 Reply Private Reply
#156: SOSO To: nolu chan (#155)
You chose Obama.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-23 18:53:50 Reply Private Reply