Trump refuses to debate; calls Fox’s Kelly ‘a lightweight’

Trump also said he supports eminent domain.

Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told the Guardian matter-of-factly: “He’s not participating in the Fox News debate”.

-Cruz’s own campaign is running an ad that hits Trump for having “New York values”.

In a New Hampshire poll, Trump took 33 percent to Cruz’s 14 percent, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich took 12 percent.

His campaign sought to capitalize on the good news, fund-raising on Twitter after his inclusion was announced on Fox News.

Trump raised the prospect of skipping the debate as he blasted Fox News Channel for “playing games” and including anchor Megyn Kelly as a debate moderator.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Muscatine High School in Muscatine, Iowa, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016.

As more mainstream, establishment candidates continue to undermine each others’ success through attack ads, the GOP leadership is growing increasingly concerned that the nomination will go to Donald Trump or Senator Ted Cruz, both known for their anti-establishment rhetoric and controversial policy proposals.

“Some Republican presidential candidates are in demographic denial”, he said. Wallace notes that Palin was able to “wrap herself in the anger that those voters felt”, pointing to those on the right who were angry at the possibility of being governed by an African-American president with a amusing name like Barack Obama.

Support for Trump also appears firm with 70 percent of his backers indicating they’ve definitely made up their mind to support him, compared to 40 percent for other candidates.

Trump is polling at 41 percent which is double that of the runner-up Texas Senator Ted Cruz at 19 percent. “Everybody knows that. Do you really think that she can be fair at a debate?”

Bernie Sanders, locked in a tight race with Clinton in Iowa, acknowledged in a town hall forum Monday night that his plan for free public college tuition and government-run health care would raise taxes — an unusual admission from a presidential candidate.

Earlier in the week, after Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Kelly treats him “really unfairly”, Fox said: “Sooner or later Donald Trump, even if he’s president, is going to have to learn that he doesn’t get to pick the journalists – we’re very surprised he’s willing to show that much fear about being questioned by Megyn Kelly”. She said the former reality TV host “would send me press clippings about me that he would just sign ‘Donald Trump‘”.

Outside groups aiding former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. “I don’t think she’s professional at all”.

But a new online poll by NBC News and Survey Monkey contradicts those findings, showing Trump leading significantly, 37 percent to 20 percent, among white evangelical voters.