Eight Republican candidates have qualified for the prime-time Fox News/Google debate on Thursday, with Donald Trump winning the center-stage spot as the top-polling candidate, Fox News announced on Tuesday.
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Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, publicly toyed with the idea of pulling out of the debate during a campaign event Tuesday in Iowa, where he said “probably I won’t be doing the debate”. Trump himself told reporters at a news conference in Marshalltown. “I most likely won’t do the debate”.
Trump had threatened a debate boycott all week, describing Kelly as a “lightweight” who is biased against him. “In a call on Saturday with a Fox News executive, Lewandowski stated that Megyn had a “rough couple of days after that last debate” and he “would hate to have her go through that again.’ Lewandowski was warned not to level any more threats, but he continued to do so”.
“The fact that Donald is now afraid to appear on the debate stage, that he doesn’t want his record questioned, I think that reflects a lack of respect for the men and women of Iowa”, Cruz added.
A Fox spokesman did not immediately respond to Trump’s decision.
“I’m not a fan of Megyn Kelly”. They could do a lot better than Megyn Kelly. “Let’s see how they do with the ratings”. In the aftermath of that debate, Trump said, “You could see there was blood coming out of her [Kelly] eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”.
The poll, which was embedded in Trump’s tweet, showed a near-split between respondents who felt he should attend the debate (52 percent) and those who felt he should skip it (48 percent).
“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”, the statement said. Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Kentucky Sen.
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But Trump said in 1999 that while he hated the “concept of abortion” he was “pro-choice”.
