Trump often claims on the campaign trail that he is responsible for strong viewership of Republican debates.
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It would be hard to find a more ideal metaphor for the forces tearing asunder the Republican Party.
Rubio strategist Todd Harris said the Iowa goal is to end up behind the flamboyant Trump and the highly organized Cruz.
After weeks of decreeing that he had entered a two-man race with Donald Trump in the Iowa caucus, Sen.
Once the front-runner in Iowa, Cruz is now running second to Donald Trump in polls and struggling to hold on as the campaign enters its last weekend before Monday’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks as the crowd applauds during a campaign stop at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua, N.H., on Friday.
“I don’t know, jokingly”, Trump responded.
“People are upset. People believe that promises made have not been promises kept”.
Additionally, Trump posted a short Instagram video on Tuesday, before announcing his final decision concerning the debate, charging that “Megyn Kelly is really biased against me”. “And they didn’t even mention that he was born in Canada”. It was also the most-watched program on TV on Thursday night, Fox News said. He has decried the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has sounded reluctant to deeply involve USA forces in the conflict in Syria.
“We explained that was not possible and we could not engage in a quid pro quo, nor could any money change hands for any reason”, the spokesman said.
Republican presidential candidates just before the Republican presidential primary debate on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. His absence loomed over the entire event.
So was the Trump-less Fox News debate a ratings disaster or a ratings win for Fox?
He also was joined at his event in Des Moines by two other Republican presidential candidates, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum – perhaps an acknowledgement that Trump’s campaign may be a juggernaut now that may not be able to be stopped and that it might be time to climb aboard. But it still had higher viewership than Trump’s counter-event. “You want to just go, get it done, win, and go to the next one”. “Cruz assumes being a conservative means an ideological checklist”. “It turns out that Donald Trump can dominate a debate even if he doesn’t show up on stage”, wrote Susan Page.
Recent polls have Trump leading the GOP field heading into Monday’s caucuses, with a roughly 6-point margin over Cruz.
“This is not something that fits into some nice little tight box”.
“Without Trump there, Cruz became the piñata and he whines about it”, said Dennis Goldford, political science professor at Drake University. “I think there was somebody missing”.
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“But I think Marco’s comes across much more real than Ted’s”, Brewer said.
