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Title: After Trump pulls out, Fox News cancels Republican debate
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Reuters
URL Source: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0WI2H0
Published: Mar 17, 2016
Author: Megan Cassella
Post Date: 2016-03-17 11:55:11 by VxH
Keywords: None
Views: 38087
Comments: 156
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Republican presidential debate scheduled for next week in Utah has been canceled, host Fox News said on Wednesday, after party front-runner Donald Trump told the network he would not participate.
Trump, who has clashed with Fox News throughout his campaign, told the network in an interview on Wednesday he would not appear at the event, scheduled for Monday, because he thought the Republicans had "had enough debates."
Ohio Governor John Kasich said afterward he would also skip the debate unless Trump changed his mind and decided to come.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the third remaining Republican candidate seeking the party's nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election, criticized Trump on Twitter, calling him #DuckingDonald and urging his supporters to tell Trump to attend.
"He's scared to debate," Cruz said in an interview on Fox News. "He's afraid of being challenged."
Fox News, part of the Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) broadcast media and entertainment company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, earlier this week announced the debate, to be held in Salt Lake City, its latest in the primary season. Utah holds its presidential primary next Tuesday.
"Ted Cruz has expressed a willingness to debate Trump or Kasich - or both. But obviously, there needs to be more than one participant," Fox News Channel’s executive vice president of news, Michael Clemente, said in a statement. "So the Salt Lake City debate is canceled."
After the cancellation, Trump posted on Twitter that he would make a "big speech" the night of the debate, "but I wish everyone well."
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Shouldn't you have addressed that to misterwhite?
No.
#118. To: Roscoe (#117)
Shouldn't you have addressed that to misterwhite?No.
Oh, I see. Trump dupes stick together.
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#119. To: Roscoe (#117)
Shouldn't you have addressed that to misterwhite?No.
I see sarcasm doesn't escape your keen intellect. Nor is intellectual honesty your strong point.
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#120. To: SOSO (#118)
Did you forget to take your Midol® today?
#121. To: Roscoe (#120)
Did you forget to take your Midol® today?
Of course. I should have known. You just lost. Bye, Mary.
There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#122. To: SOSO (#121)
I see you're attracting the attention of the forum's Trumpkin gadflies.
Since you know they are unpersuadeable by any factual presentation, maybe you just enjoy all that typing. : )
#123. To: TooConservative (#122)
How do you think she'll reward you for trying to rescue her?
#124. To: TooConservative (#122)
Since you know they are unpersuadeable by any factual presentation, maybe you just enjoy all that typing. : )
For the most part depantsing intellectual bankrupts is akin to pulling the wings of flies but sometimes it is fun. If you note I only chime in on them when there is an event, as was today with Romney, that highlights either Trump the con man or Trump the destroyer of the REP Party (as with Trump's response to Romney) or when they post something really stupid even for a Trumpkin.
But it really isn't the Trumpkin dupes that is at the heart of my feelings, it's the state of our society. It's the division that seems to grow wider each day without a glimmer of hope that this election will do anything but exploit and widen the rift. It is what I see as the inevitable future of the country. It's the sin and self-destructiveness of believing in false Gods.
Trump wants to make America great again - can any two people agree on what that means? Hillary wants to make America whole again - can any two people agree on what that means? We are all dupes of a sort. It makes me sad. I have no expectation that anything said to the Trumpkins gadflies or Hillary's useful idots or Bernie's Stalinistas or Cruz's Purists will change anyone's thinking .
Shame on me but I am beginning to think that the wisest man on the planet was H.L. Menckin - and he was such a cynical godless bastard. Then I think it might be Lily Tomlin who said "No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." How did the country become so f*cked up?
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#125. To: Roscoe (#123)
How do you think she'll reward you for trying to rescue her?
Panties still in a bunch, Mary?
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#126. To: SOSO (#101)
Does it really make sense to you that in February the RNC agrees to a debate to be hosted by Fox in Salt Lake City on March 20 or 21 and neither the RNC nor Fox contact any of the candidates for participation until March 14?
No. That is so terminally stupid that I am surprised you would suggest that it happened.
Until March 14, no firm decision was made on the venue, specific date, specific time, or who would be sponsoring the event. When all was confirmed, only then could the event be officially anounced.
The February action of penciling in a debate in February was no more than the RNC determining to have another debate with a venue, time, place, and sponsor to be determined.
in February the RNC agrees to a debate to be hosted by Fox in Salt Lake City on March 20 or 21
The problem with this declarative crap is that the underlined portion is creative bullshit. That decision was made in mid-March for March 21.
#127. To: nolu chan, misterwhite, roscoe (#126)
Does it really make sense to you that in February the RNC agrees to a debate to be hosted by Fox in Salt Lake City on March 20 or 21 and neither the RNC nor Fox contact any of the candidates for participation until March 14?No. That is so terminally stupid that I am surprised you would suggest that it happened.
I didn't, this what Trump claimed. He stated that he had no knowledge of the Salt Lake City debate on March 9 when he accepted the engagement at AIPAC. That is so terminally stupid a statement by him that you know that it is a lie. He knew about the SLC debate well before March 9 and likely said he would participate in it sometime in Feb. He just chickened out when it became clear that it would just be three of them and peed his pants when he found out that one of them would be Cruz.
FTR misterwhite and Roscoe believe Trump's story. Now that is terminally stupid.
There is no hope for Trump dupes.
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#128. To: SOSO (#127)
I didn't, this what Trump claimed. He stated that he had no knowledge of the Salt Lake City debate on March 9 when he accepted the engagement at AIPAC.
It was not announced until March 14th. Trump and Kasich declined to accept the invitation which did not exist until March 14th.
Keep trying.
#129. To: SOSO (#112)
According to the article, "... front-runner Donald Trump told the network he would not participate." Nowhere does the article say he pulled out.
Headlines are written by editors, not writers.
#130. To: misterwhite (#129)
According to the article, "... front-runner Donald Trump told the network he would not participate." Nowhere does the article say he pulled out.
Stop. You'll make her cry.
#131. To: SOSO (#127)
Oh geez, more nonsense from another disgruntled pautard, get over it. Rand is just as big a loser as his stupid, inbred daddy.
Trump kicked paul's little boy's ass and you clowns can't get over it.
#132. To: Rosco, misterwhite (#130)
soso's a typical paultard, whine, whine whine and the constant "the two party system doesn't work" while they try their best to keep it in place.
go TRUMP
#133. To: calcon, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#132)
soso's a typical paultard, whine, whine whine and the constant "the two party system doesn't work" while they try their best to keep it in place.go TRUMP
LMAO. There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
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#134. To: calcon, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#133)
Aren't you the same guys that got Obama elected?
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#135. To: calcon (#132)
go TRUMP
I wish he would GO ... away. He is a loud mouth only obsessed with himself.
#136. To: buckeroo (#135)
He is a loud mouth only obsessed with himself.
I know bucky but I still like you anyway.
#137. To: SOSO, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#134)
Did you post to us by mistake, paultard?
#138. To: calcon (#136)
Why do you want to vote for a loud mouth as US President?
#139. To: calcon, Rosco, misterwhite, nolu chan (#137)
Did you post to us by mistake, paultard?
You intelligence matches you gullibility.
But you are the same guys that got Obama elected. How has that worked out for you?
There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#140. To: SOSO (#139)
There is no hope for a Trump dupe.
Well ... they could be looking for a free baseball cap:
#141. To: calcon (#137)
She's almost as repetitive as her boyfriend Marco.
#142. To: buckeroo (#140)
Well ... they could be looking for a free baseball cap:
LOL. Dollar Donald never does anything for free.
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#143. To: SOSO, Fred Mertz (#142)
Dollar Donald never does anything for free.
That is exactly Fred's opinion.
#144. To: buckeroo, Fred Metz (#143)
Dollar Donald never does anything for free.That is exactly Fred's opinion.
For once Fred is right:)
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#145. To: SOSO (#144)
Hey, thanks. I better mark this down on my important moments calendar.
#146. To: Fred Mertz (#145)
Hey, thanks. I better mark this down on my important moments calendar.
Naw, you'll only lose it.
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#147. To: SOSO, buckeroo (#142)
Well ... they could be looking for a free baseball cap:LOL. Dollar Donald never does anything for free.
wake up silly geese, that why we want him making the "DEALS" for us.
your GOP/DNCe crap just doesn't mean diddly squat to we trump supports.
#148. To: calcon, TrumpTards, to FEMA camps (#147)
n diddly squat to we trump supports
You Trumptards will be the first to go to the FEMA camps. The Donald ain't gonna leave y'all running around loose.
It's the first step in making America great again. Lose the morons.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul#149. To: hondo68 (#148)
Lose the morons.
we did, ron paul out of it, baby rand totally embarrassed and forced to leave by trump
#150. To: calcon, buckeroo (#147)
LOL. Dollar Donald never does anything for free.
wake up silly geese, that why we want him making the "DEALS" for us.
Oh, you want to be like the dupes that he left holding the bag of his bankrupt companies. Well OK then, knock yourself out.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#151. To: SOSO, calcon, Rosco, misterwhite (#139)
But you are the same guys that got Obama elected. How has that worked out for you?
If you say so. You must be the guy who keeps figuring out a way to back a loser. How's that working out for you?
#152. To: nolu chan (#151)
But you are the same guys that got Obama elected. How has that worked out for you?If you say so. You must be the guy who keeps figuring out a way to back a loser. How's that working out for you?
I didn't stay home last election like you and your "principled" losers. We made sure that we all lost and f*cked us all.
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#153. To: SOSO (#152)
We made sure that we all lost and f*cked us all.
thanks for admitting to f*cking things up.
#154. To: calcon (#153)
We made sure that we all lost and f*cked us all.thanks for admitting to f*cking things up.
Got brains?
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#155. To: SOSO (#152)
I didn't stay home last election like you and your "principled" losers.
When offered the choice of two turds, I chose neither. Different people have different standards. I will not vote for another GOP establishment turdburger.
#156. To: nolu chan (#155)
When offered the choice of two turds, I chose neither.
You chose Obama.
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