We’ve got hundreds of media credentialed people who are going to be there to hopefully cover Mr. Trump’s event. “I expect all the candidates will take an unabated shot at Trump, I can’t imagine they won’t go after him”.
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Another Republican hopeful, U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, told Fox News that he welcomed Trump’s absence from the debate stage because it means “we don’t have to put up with a lot of empty blather and boastfulness and calling people names”.
Trump repeatedly and loudly complained that one of the Thursday debate moderators will be Megyn Kelly, whom he has been attacking since last August, when she was one of the moderators in the first Fox-hosted debate. “Fox News think they can toy with him, but Mr Trump doesn’t play games”. “Capitulating to politicians’ ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards”, Fox said in a statement last night.
You’re all fired! Donald Trump released a scathing statement via Twitter late Tuesday, January 26, about boycotting the upcoming Fox News-hosted Republican presidential debate on January 28.
While Webber doesn’t support Trump, he said he was disappointed that the Iowa frontrunner planned to sit out the final Republican debate ahead of the February 1 caucuses.
If 200,000 Republicans show up, Trump’s lead would rise to 32 percent to 21 percent.
“Who would ever say something so nasty and dumb?” But he won’t be there to make any gaffes or engage in potentially risky sparring with Ted Cruz and the others.
According to Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, Trump’s campaign says they have reached out to “all major networks” to carry the event live.
“If past performance is any indication of future coverage, we’ll all be talking about Trump Friday morning”, Strawn said.
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Police in Iowa have arrested a man accused of throwing tomatoes at GOP front runner Donald Trump at a Tuesday night rally, the Des Moines Register reports. Marco Rubio of Florida, said he wanted to focus on keeping the party united in order to beat Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, in November if she becomes the Democratic nominee. A Quinnipiac University poll published this week showed only 2 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers are undecided, but a whopping 39 percent said they might change their mind.
