Posted on 02/04/2016 5:39:27 PM PST by Elderberry
Fox News has made another calculated decision to have one of their top anchors, Megyn Kelly, come back as a moderator in the next Republican Presidential Debate. Despite the national headlining feud between Kelly (as well as Fox News) and former GOP Presidential candidate frontrunner Donald Trump, Kelly will also be heavily involved in the debate’s moderation and there is a good chance that Trump will suck up his pride and participate following his humiliating defeat to Senator Ted Cruz in the Iowa primary earlier this week.
Although Trump has been in recent month hailed as a ratings magnet for GOP debates as well late night talk shows and other media interviews, the ratings could go through the roof if he decides to participate in this debate on Fox News.
Trump optioned to sit out the last GOP debate on Fox News, citing that Kelly unfairly targeted him in her questions about potentially misogynistic statements that he had made via social media. He also went after her following the debate, making personal attacks and insinuating that she had been menstruating during the debate.
He also famously had a feud with Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch, which played out through a serious of private and social communications.
Trump seemed to graciously accept defeat on Monday's Iowa primaries when he said that he "was honored" to be in second place, although he did not even come close to Cruz in the election. As a matter of fact, he was nearly tied with third place winner, Senator Marco Rubio.
As reported by The Hill, the details of the third Fox News debate have only recently been released and it will take place on March 3 in Detroit, Michigan.
Megyn Kelly will join the returning triumvirate team of moderators alongside Brett Baier and Chris Wallace. All three have hosted the previous two debates on Fox News, the last of which did not feature Trump.
The previous Fox News debate was not the first time Trump had made demands of the hosting network in order for him to appear. He had previously demanded a payment of $5 million from CNN. But when CNN did not cave to his demand, he still participated in the debate.
Last month, Trump demanded that Fox News bar Kelly from any future debates or else he would not participate. The decision to follow through with his threat came down to the 11th hour, but he made good on it and stayed off the platform.
Skipping the Fox News debate is one of the reasons that he cited as what hurt him in the Iowa primary race, although he has seemed to flip-flopped on that excuse, now saying that Cruz won the race through nefarious means and fraudulent tactics.
But it would be reasonable to assume that skipping the Fox News debate ultimately cost him a win in Iowa, which he had long been the frontrunner to win based on early polling numbers from various independent and media sources.
When the debate airs live on Fox News on March 3, the primary season will already have a whole host of winners and losers on the board. Before that Fox News event takes place, voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming will all have already weighed in on their pick for the GOP Presidential candidate.
There is a good chance that Trump will not be skipping this next Fox News debate, especially if it is a close race at the time it occurs.
The GOP candidate field will also be a narrower race at that time as well. Fox News is reporting that Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign and went on to endorse Marco Rubio.
Her street ho eyelashes are a trip hazard
He would have to still be in the running, come March3, to be able to participate.
My Misses is happy to. I click over to One America News and get more news in half an hour than I do listening to Fox for 3 hours.
Yeah, he will show up.
I hope Wallace isn’t there. He was a way bigger Jerk to Cruz than Kelly ever was to Trump.
Trump will cave.
He won’t admit it but he may be afraid the debate skipping he was so proud of may have hurt him in Iowa.
I’m okay with Megyn but Chris Wallace is a total jerk.
I wonder who the moderators will be at the Telemundo Debate on 2/25 ?
Yes, I love the sound of Trump’s poll numbers falling in the morning.
He could right his ship if he could control himself but he can’t.
Fox is annoying with their Rubio fixation but nobody carries OANN.
I don’t think Trump would agree with you about that. He pleased some of his more avid followers, but looked weak and childish to everyone else.
Joysus murphy. How many debates we gotta have already ????
Everybody forgets they were setting a trap for Trump, with the leftist and the black and the muslim questioners, and he made the decision to avoid it. There would have been repercussions if he had gone too, but we’ll never know.
Everybody forgets they were setting a trap for Trump, with the leftist and the black and the muslim questioners, and he made the decision to avoid it. There would have been repercussions if he had gone too, but we’ll never know.
12 in all.
That is not her job...her job is not to attack, that is the candidates jobs...they are there to DEBATE each other, the the moderators
There was the day I watched Megyn Kelly faithfully, not any longer, as she is snarky, opinionated, and very unfair.... Her nasty facial expressions says it all...
I've had more than enough of her... Fox has many, many great journalist that should be given the opportunity to moderate a debate...not the same OLD, same OLD ones...time for Fox to listen to the people who give them their ratings..
There are too many debates and they include too many non-contenders.
But all the contenders need to show up and do their best... not sulk off to some other agenda ... something he could have done any time and still debated, by the way.
I find Wallace's smug demeanor more annoying than Kelly. I'll never forget hearing Wallace confess to having a man-crush on Mitt Romney in 2012 during a phone interview.
Totally agree. The moderators should ask questions not make speeches and not have agendas.
“Sorry, he won’t go if Megyn’s there.”
Agree. She’s not a journalist. She’s a celebrity skank with an axe to grind itching to present `gotcha!’ questions to Trump. Like what’s-his-name, the cue ball on the Today show who tried to steer the interview of Sarah Palin into salacious gossip aimed at her grown children, with her actually present.
Maybe the future president could debate Cruz and Rubio using moderators that don’t want any of them to look bad, and instead want the issues ventilated.
An actual debate, in other words.
For example, I would like to hear Cruz explain himself and Article 2, Section 1, clause 5; you know—the elephant in the room.
Of course as long as the GOP-e is calling the debate format shots, those fags won’t object to Meghen and her flagrant bias.
So we arrive where we started: why would he attend if he knows this partisan ringer is going to lob grenades to him, and softballs to Rubio?
There’s no reason he would cooperate in his own humiliation in a “Gotcha!” Meghen game show format masquerading as a real debate.
Oh yeah, and anyone who says Trump is ducking Fox “debates” redux is a mouth-breathing Cruz or Rubio GOP-e lamebrain.
You need to start bugging your cable company!!!! Or get Roku I got Roku for 99.00 and I think it is 4.00 a month to get unlimited new stations, OANN is included !!!
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