Some poll out tonight has Jeb! in second place in New Hampshire.
Joe Scarborough ?@JoeNBC
Anyone thinking Trump loses this game of chicken hasn’t been paying attention for the past 6 months.
This event has played out over and over and over again and Trump wins every time
Frantic phone calls ignored. Report is he will now only deal with Murdoch
WHO is going to watch that thing?
Ratings will push through the floorboards, just WAIT.
Now Fox has to bring a muzz into o GOP debate. Trump
Is smart to stay out of it. Let the others bow down.
Trump is running out the clock and foiled the expected ambush by Fox on the eve of the Iowa caucus.
GO TRUMP
The smart general chooses his battles, he doesn’t let his enemies choose his battles for him.
He’s going to be doing a wounded veterans fund raiser instead. I hope it beats the fox debate ratings into the ground.
Political Wire is ranked among the top 10 most popular liberal blogs
I bet he shows up. He’s too much of a showboat not to.
Fox has been constantly trashing Trump .. Fox just got out foxed
Yuck, they included a Muslim at the debate? That is low, even though I’m no gan of Trump.
Quote:
“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.”
That is an incredibly unprofessional comment from FNC management personnel. Then FNC follows that up with the Muslim ringer planned for the “debate.”
Any candidate - repeat - ANY candidate who did NOT walk away from this so-called “debate” after all that would indeed qualify as a P U S S Y. And a SUCKER. And a FOOL. In other words, a typical, spineless GOPe hack destined to lose.
Good job, Donald Trump. And screw you, Fox News Channel.
Close the effin’ borders. Bring our jobs back. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
Yup.
This is just the first time a candidate has said that he will NOT PLAY ALONG.
While supporters for some other guy want to posture, looking for a way to side with the press in a vain hope of scoring some political points, people will see that Trump did exactly what should have been done.
I love how the political class thinks this is a bad move by Trump.
What will actually happen?
1) Trump will ride this wave of publicity through the Iowa Caucuses.
2) Trump will compare Fox’s first debate ratings (roughly 25 million) to this debate, which even if Trump was there would have been 14 million or so. and go with the line, I am not there, the ratings tank.
3) Trump’s supporters won’t care.
4) Iowans won’t care as this is the seventh debate of the cycle.
Trump knows he has nothing to lose here, plus he shows Independents that he’s not taking crap from Conservative-bastion Fox.
I’m not paying $5 a month to read a stupid article.
Where does it state in our Constitution that our political candidates must submit themselves to the gauntlet that the MSM has prepared for them?
I would heap scorn upon any candidate who decided to “skip” such a forum if all were equally held to the same standards across the political spectrum, but that has not been the case for several decades now, and I and I am impressed that finally one candidate has put his foot down and told the MSM that they can “take a hike” with their “agenda”.
Whether or not this costs Mr. Trump the Republican nomination or even the general election, I do not care. I am Particularly impressed that he has “broken the mold” and is no longer following the script of the unelected and self anointed ‘King Makers’.
Trump is leading from behind!