Speaking just miles away from the Republican debate that he chose to boycott, Donald Trump said Thursday he skipped the FOX-sponsored clash “out of respect for myself”.
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“Roger Ailes had three brief conversations with Donald Trump today about possibly appearing at the debate there were not multiple calls placed by Ailes to Trump”, the official said.
“Once this ball started rolling, we couldn’t stop it”, he said of the event, which Trump claims has raised more than $5 million for veterans’ causes, although it is not clear to which organizations he plans to donate.
Trump was holding a competing event in Iowa.
Kasich says, “Every single engine of government has to move when you see a crisis like that”.
Marco Rubio is defending his push for a statewide program to cap carbon emissions and curb climate change.
Cruz and Wallace talked over each other for a few moments before Wallace cut him off and directed a question at Jeb Bush.
“I don’t think you need to be a politician to tell the truth”, he said during Thursday night’s Republican debate.
But he said he was mistreated by Fox News, which was hosting the debate.
Jeb Bush, who has been the target of several Trump attacks over the course of the campaign, later deadpanned his response to the front-runner’s debate absence.
Asked about the “elephant not in the room” by Fox News moderators, two rivals – Texas Sen. Trump has accused Kelly of being biased against him and criticized her handling of an earlier debate.
“They’ve been contacting me now”, Mr. Bohlmann, 47, a real estate investor in Denver, Iowa, said Thursday. Trump supporters, many of them veterans wearing fatigues, service pins and caps, filled the venue’s 700-plus seats and a Jumbo-tron was set up outside for an excess crowd.
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Yet the Republican party represented on stage tonight was less overtly ridiculous, less prone to childish insult games, and more willing to engage in substantive debate about issues ranging from Obamacare and Medicaid to ethanol and immigration, than it has been since Trump entered the race past year.
