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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: 21009
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.
Plus the 4 in the kiddie debate. (1 image)
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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.
#48. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
So now Fox will have an unwatched debate, and the debating seasons is effectively ended.
Interesting you mention that. The M-I-L has not voted for a presidential candidate for eons. She said she will vote for Trump or not vote at all. Thinking there are a lot like her.
She also said there is no reason to watch the debate tomorrow if Trump is not there. So supports your statement.
Her main reason for supporting Trump is that he gets things done and the bums in DC can't properly clean a Johnnie (that would be bathroom).
Plus she is a NY gal and she likes her NY men.
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Trump appeals to middle class and working class Americans, because middle class and working class Americans are screwed by open borders, free trade, and forever war, and there is not one politician of any stature who has supported the broad back of the people on this in any sense for decades.
In fact, the people have been laughed at, put down, more by Republicans than Democrats too. Democrats have been very effective at identity politics, protecting the bailiwicks of various minorities.
Republicans have protected a certain minority: the very rich, very well.
But all of this has been at the EXPENSE of the middle class and the working class.
The middle class and working class are being squeezed out of existence, economically downward, as a result of these policies. And they are not going to take it anymore.
This is not a "one issue" voter bunch either. No, there are a LOT of issues, and ALL Of them cut against the interest of the Establishment.
Of course, it is in times like this that Establishment philosophers will say that this is why we have a republic and not a democracy. Republics can hold down the interests of the broad back of the people longer. But eventually the jig is up.
In 1932, the jig was up for the Republicans, who had run everything since the Civil War. Their old ideas did not work anymore, and the people were done giving them any more chances.
2016 is going to be an election like that. Trump is running as a populist. He is beholden to no one, but he LIKES the working class and middle class, and shares their values about key things.
And we know it, so we're going to vote for him, en masse, and swamp the system.
Perot tried to do this outside of the party structure, but the logic of doing it INSIDE a party - and then simply sweeping away the existing party leadership and replacing it with new people once you've won - well, that's easier, and more likely to win. Trump is a fighter, and a winner. He's winning. He's going to win.
In the aftermath of victory, I predict that he will have a massive mandate. And he will wield that mandate to maintain the ability to smash through all of his policies.
And, contrary to the whining philosophes of Establishment Republicanism, I think Trump has been quite clear:
The wall goes up and the Border closes, and the illegals are shipped out. Period.
Muslim immigration stops until we get our security house in order. Period.
We don't send in armed forces unless the war will be profitable for us. Period. We're not going to bleed selflessly to defend anybody else. Including Israel. Period.
Hedge fund guys will lose the carried interest deduction. Period.
Everybody in America will be covered by health insurance, it will not be Obamacare, and taxes will be raised as far as is necessary to cover them. Period.
The tax code will be simplified, flattened, and become more progressive. Period.
Entrenched interests are going to hate it, but they will have been expended maximal effort to defeat him in the election, and BEEN defeated, and the massive coalition of people like me and your mother in law who turn out to elect him are going to stick with him as he bludgeons through the things he's said he'll do.
It will be fun, winning for a change.
#53. To: redleghunter (#48)
The M-I-L has not voted for a presidential candidate for eons. She said she will vote for Trump or not vote at all. Thinking there are a lot like her.She also said there is no reason to watch the debate tomorrow if Trump is not there. So supports your statement.
Things will be so much better after swarms of elderly crackpots who haven't taken any interest in politics and voting in decades finally come out to swamp the GOP primary for a liberal casino NYC tycoon with a reality show.
Sure, that'll make it all better.
The idea that Trump is the cure for the problems of the GOP (or the USA) is laughable. He makes things worse, not better.
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