Trump not backing down from Fox debate boycott

Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is selling hats that say “Make Trump Debate Again”.

See, O’Donnell thinks Trump knows that he “is an utter ignoramus on all matters of governing” and would get crushed in a general election debate, so he’s playing the long game now and getting ready to skip those debates too.

On Wednesday, Cruz challenged Trump to a “mano a mano” debate – either Lincoln-Douglas or Iowa town hall style – mocking Trump’s stated reasons for relinquishing his place on stage before what promises to be a huge audience, both nationally and in Iowa, less than 72 hours before Monday’s caucuses.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, meanwhile, said he didn’t “have time for these kinds of distractions”. She said the former reality TV host “would send me press clippings about me that he would just sign ‘Donald Trump'”. As it is, with tomorrow night’s event for veterans now in motion, this is going to play more like a formal kiss-off to the debate than a “maybe, we’ll see” thing.

“They think they can toy with Mr. Trump”, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.

The Quinnipiac survey polled 606 likely Iowa Democratic caucus participants by phone from January 18 to 24. The debate is being moderated by Trump nemesis Megyn Kelly, with whom he tangled in a Fox debate in August.

The absence of Trump leaves seven candidates on the stage Thursday: Florida Sen.

According to the Texas Tribune, the date and time Cruz has reserved is 8 p.m. on Saturday at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, Iowa. Trump wants you think he can be a world leader.

We wish we could say this surprised us but somehow Trump seems to take to bullying and tweeting whenever he’s bored.

Front-runner Ronald Reagan skipped a debate held ahead of the 1980 Iowa caucuses and wound up losing the state to George H.W. Bush.

Ben Carson is viewed as the most religious candidate overall, with 68 percent of Americans saying he is “very” or “somewhat” religious.

O’Reilly said Trump should channel his Christian faith and “forgive” Kelly for any unfair questions she may have asked during the network’s first Republican debate over the summer.

Cruz’s polling averages in Iowa have fallen and Trump now leads most surveys, with a Quinnipiac University poll on Tuesday showing Trump leading Cruz 31% to 29%. “I’m a good Christian”.

“The sanctity of human life is not up for the art of the deal”, Vander Plaats said, referring to the title of Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal”.

“The debate chaos is a fitting end”, he said, “to a caucus process that has been nothing short of a complete circus”.

“When you start vilifying and demonizing and attacking strong conservative leaders because they choose not to support you, that starts to communicate an terrible lot to the men and women who are watching”, Cruz said in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Tuesday.