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Title: Trump team says he'll ditch Thursday's GOP debate (afraid to face Megyn Kelly)
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USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... thursdays-gop-debate/79371610/
Published: Jan 26, 2016
Author: David Jackson
Post Date: 2016-01-26 19:51:08 by Hondo68
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Views: 21015
Comments: 65
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Farmington High School on Jan. 25, 2016, in Farmington, N.H. (Photo: John Minchillo, AP)
Protesting "wise guy" comments from Fox News about his criticism of anchor Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump said Tuesday he likely won't participate in Thursday's Republican debate -- and his campaign manager said later the GOP front-runner would in fact skip the event.
"Most likely, I'm not going to be doing the debate," Trump told reporters before a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa.
Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, later told reporters that the businessman would definitely not participate, and said it is not a matter of negotiation.
Trump has threatened a debate boycott all week, describing Kelly as a "lightweight" who is biased against him.
Trump's criticism led to pushback from Fox News, including one statement from the network earlier Tuesday that drew the businessman's ire: “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.”
Citing that statement, Trump said that Fox is "playing games" and that he will do an event for wounded warriors instead of Thursday's debate.
Trump has attacked Kelly since an Aug. 6 debate in which the Fox anchor asked him about statements demeaning women. Kelly has declined to respond to Trump's attacks, but Fox has defended her and insisted she be part of the debate.
Earlier this week, Fox said: "Megyn Kelly has no conflict of interest. Donald Trump is just trying to build up the audience for Thursday's debate, for which we thank him."
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There are 7 participants left who can take turns explaining The Donald's problems. That should be fun.
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Trump team says he'll ditch Thursday's GOP debate (afraid to face Megyn Kelly)
Without Trump there would be no debates but only an array of politicians hiding in a cloud of evasive dialogue spiced with occasional wit and trying to pretend there's a real difference among them.
Kelly hit Thrump with a question containing unproven presupositions and it pissed Trump off. It's the old, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" trick in which the question is really an accusation. Trump is not very well schooled in the techniques of advocacy or he would have handled it much better. He's a business man and builder, not a lawyer or theologin.
#2. To: rlk (#1)
#6. To: hondo68 (#2)
LOL some Aussie on another site has this as his tagline.
#7. To: redleghunter (#6)
There have been too many debates already. By deciding to put Megan Kelly back there after the last fiasco, Fox News was planning a Pearl Harbor. Trump avoided that by refusing to play ball.
So now Fox will have an unwatched debate, and the debating seasons is effectively ended.
Voting starts shortly in Iowa, and Trump is going to win that. And that will be that.
By going after the future President, NR and Fox have damaged their brands to a degree that they will never fully recover. What works against a dependent dwarf does not work against Trump.
#12. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
There have been too many debates already. By deciding to put Megan Kelly back there after the last fiasco, Fox News was planning a Pearl Harbor. Trump avoided that by refusing to play ball.So now Fox will have an unwatched debate, and the debating seasons is effectively ended.
Voting starts shortly in Iowa, and Trump is going to win that. And that will be that.
By going after the future President, NR and Fox have damaged their brands to a degree that they will never fully recover. What works against a dependent dwarf does not work against Trump.
Trump has thrown down the gauntlet. He is basically saying (as you imply above) Megan Kelly can have the worst ratings of her career by not Trump not attending. It was a business and marketing lesson from him. It will probably turn out to be a good one for him and bad decision by Fox.
As it turns out he will instead raise money for wounded veterans. Good move and I do truly believe his heart is in supporting veterans.
Now I would like to hear why he is truly Pro-Life and like the other candidates where he believes life begins and his views on personhood. This is very important.
#19. To: redleghunter, Vicomte13 (#12)
Trump has thrown down the gauntlet. He is basically saying (as you imply above) Megan Kelly can have the worst ratings of her career by not Trump not attending. It was a business and marketing lesson from him. It will probably turn out to be a good one for him and bad decision by Fox.
Don't think so . Fox is sticking to a principled decision that he can't dictate terms of an interview/debate. What next ? The candidates submitting the questions they answer? I know the DNC gets away with it .
Trump is also disengenuous about FOX. He is on Greta ,O'Reilly ,and Hannity ad- nausium. There is no basis to the charge that he is being unfairly treated . His position should be the same one that Newt took ;challenge the question's legitimacy and redirect . Let's face facts . Trump has everything to lose and nothing to gain ;especially if he has a bad performance. That is the real reason he's bugging out .
#32. To: tomder55 (#19)
His position should be the same one that Newt took
How liberal of you to tell him what his position should be.
For the record Reagan skipped the final debate before Iowa.
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For the record Reagan skipped the final debate before Iowa.
You just played the trump card.
#35. To: A K A Stone (#32)
How liberal of you to tell him what his position should be.
just giving some friendly advice.
This is how it's done .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7OHEnz9KE
#50. To: A K A Stone, Roscoe, (#32)
For the record Reagan skipped the final debate before Iowa.
had to refresh my memory about this because it was all over the internet how Reagan skipped the last debate before Iowa and still won the election.
This is true . On the advice of his campaign manager John Sears ,Reagan did skip the last debate ,and ended up losing the Iowa caucus to GHW Bush. Reagan fired Sears and replaced him with William Casey ,and the rest if history.
#65. To: A K A Stone (#32)
"For the record Reagan skipped the final debate before Iowa."
And he lost Iowa. But he did go on to win the election.
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