Trump says he won't skip the next GOP debate

Politico ^ | 1/29/2016 | HANNA TRUDO

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Donald Trump isn't planning on ditching the next debate. In an interview with NH1 News, the real estate mogul was asked whether he planned to participate in the next Republican debate on Feb. 6, co-hosted by ABC News and IJReview and held at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

"I think I will be, yeah," Trump said when asked if he will attend. "I look forward to it."

"I'm doing really well here," he added, taking the opportunity to plug his popularity in state polls. "I will be in New Hampshire doing the debates."

He also took a shot at his chief rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whom he said got "very badly hurt" during Thursday night's debate.

Trump is up by nearly 20 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of New Hampshire polls.

[Guenevere]

GO TRUMP

[SandRat]

But will he even be innvited?

[trisham]

I think he's made his point.

[cableguymn]

MSNBC hosting the next one?

[nascarnation]

How many debates do they really need? This circular firing squad is nuts.

[glorgau]

That’s what he says now. Give it a couple of weeks for the story to evolve.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Why wouldn’t he be? Rand Paul was invited to this past one after skipping the Fox Business debate

[McGruff]

Ha, ha. Keep them guessing. Take that FNC.

[PROCON]

Trump: "It's all about me, me, me, me...."

I say: "Who cares?"

[donna]

How is that any different than the rest of them?

[loveliberty2]

Quoted from another thread today: "I never doubted his drive and wealth motivation. I just want to know if he will be a strong strict constitutionalist, appoint conservative justices and surround himself with constitution loving conservatives on his cabinet, flush the State Department, DOJ, and now Pentagon leftist /communists." - Freeper FreeAtlanta

[headstamp 2]

“How many debates do they really need?”

74

[alloysteel]

Point has been made with staying away from the Fox News debate. There was always a standing invitation even there, but he chose not to honor that invitation by participating in a rival event that evening.

There are no similar events being planned competing with the February 6th New Hampshire scheduled debate.

[Lazamataz]

There’s ANOTHER debate???!?

Sheesh, I don’t recall ever seeing so many.

[vekzen]

“How many debates do they really need? This circular firing squad is nuts.”

And the problem is they aren’t debates at all. They are agenda driven charades where journalists try to tip the balance by making some candidates look bad and others good.
Journalist now are salivating at the through of taking Trump and Cruz down.

The RNC. . . well, I guess you can’t fix stupid. But they should structure the “debates” as formal debates without any journalists and without questions. The topics should be circulated beforehand and the candidates can state their positions and respond to the positions of other candidates.

[going hot]

As many as it takes (in the MSM minds) to deflate voter turnout by staging traps and gotcha questions in order to get a negative sounding soundbite that can be looped endlessly.

Discussing and actually debating issues with each other? not so much.

[Lazamataz]

How many debates do they really need? This circular firing squad is nuts.

Apparently they need three-hundred seventy-four trillion, four-hundred ninety-seven billion, seven-hundred and twelve million, five-hundred and sixty-two thousand, one-hundred and forty-one debates.

And not one less, dam you.

[nascarnation]

ugh...sadly correct

[Lazamataz]

Seventy-eight debates per second is what they need to aim for.