Trump made news headlines again Thursday, along with the number two GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson.
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Trump and Carson are reportedly not the only candidates upset with CNBC over the programme’s format, Politico reported. Establishment favourite Jeb Bush has fallen to the fifth place with 7.3 percent.
In the letter, shared by NBC News, Trump and Carson state they “do not agree to a 120 minute debate that includes commercial breaks and opening and closing statements”. CNBC issued a memo to all candidates saying they had “previously agreed” to the debate format when, in fact, none of the candidates had held any discussions with the cable business channel.
CNBC said on Thursday said that the format for the debate had not yet been finalized.
Trump and fellow GOP candidate Ben Carson and indicated to the network that they would not participate if the debate was going to be longer than two hours, including commercials and if it didn’t include opening and closing statements.
Trump has in the past toyed with the idea of boycotting the presidential primary debates, suggesting in August that he would skip a CNN debate unless the network donated its profits to charity.
If baseball teams anxious about preserving their starting pitchers for the postseason keep a close eye on the pitch count, why shouldn’t a Republican Party, anxious about keeping candidates sharp and healthy, give at least a few consideration to the cumulative toll extended debates might take?
This means that his payments to fundraisers exceeded everything he paid to online vendors (think social media, email marketing, and online ads), direct mail efforts, travel, ad air time, telemarketing, his website, plus all of his staffers and consultants.
“Prepared statements are what politicians do”, Fiorina insisted.
A new Quinnipiac University Poll shows real estate developer and entrepreneur Donald Trump leads the pack of Republican presidential candidates among Republican voters in Connecticut. “You know, that kind of stuff is foolishness as far as I’m concerned”.
There has been a rather interesting intersection as of late between politics and television; can you really be all that surprised that Donald Trump is at the center of it?
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The topic of debates has been a contentious one throughout the campaign, with both Democrats andRepublicans sparring over who is included on stage and how much time they’re allotted. The most vehement protest came from Trump and Carson, whose campaigns worked in conjunction with each other to pen a letter to CNBC Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Cuddy. “The Fox debate – the first debate, 24 million people watched in August – two hours, and with 10 candidates”.
