Despite Donald Trump’s success in the polls, Mitt Romney said the Republican front-runner’s “hurtful” and “childish” comments are going to make winning the primary and general election hard for the GOP.
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Both had threatened to boycott CNBC’s October 28th primary debate if it were not capped at two hours including commercial breaks.
This kept Trump in the headlines and at the top of the news cycle throughout yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Trump and Carson had teamed up to demand not only a 120-minute time frame, but also that the debate should include opening and closing statements from all candidates.
Trump was among the handful of GOP candidates who griped about the last GOP debate, held in September at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, that lasted three hours.
Trump did take several shots at Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – including on immigration. And that debate got its biggest headlines after it ended, when Trump blasted Wallace, and most particularly Megyn Kelly, for the questions they’d asked him. Trump said he initially planned a “substantially higher” initial budget, but “good business practices” have kept costs in check.
The GOP presidential debate coming to Boulder this month is still a go.
Fox News is using CNBC’s announcement that it would change the format of its upcoming GOP presidential debate following presidential candidate Donald Trump’s demand that the network do so to applaud Trump’s negotiating skills. “Further, the debate must include opening and closing statements from all the candidates”. Ted Cruz. Illinois retiree Beverly Perlson, whos from a military family, said she was immediately drawn to Trump because of his attention to veterans issues and his promise to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“Our goal is to host the most substantive debate possible.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Tyngsborough.
In Iowa, the Real Clear Politics average now has Trump leading with 22 percent support, followed by Ben Carson at 17 percent, and Carly Fiorina at 10 percent.
“For heaven’s sake we have ten candidates on the stage, I don’t think three hours is a long time.”
She said their request that opening and closing statements be included, too, wasn’t in-line with the outsider image they’ve embraced.
While it seems, therefore, that Trump and Carson have a lot of leverage here-Trump’s name, especially, draws ratings-the CNBC and Republican organizers have more than you’d think.
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Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewndowski, told NBC the large grassroots support was humbling, and the campaign “will be as judicious as possible” in allocating money raised from voters.
