Donald Trump polls fans: ‘Should I do the GOP debate?’

“I’m going to have something else in Iowa, we’ll do something where we’ll raise money for the veterans and the wounded warriors, we’re going to do something simultaneously with the debate”, he said. “And Fox will go from probably having 24 million viewers to about 2 million”.

Trump arguably has the most to lose on Thursday night since polls show him in a commanding position in the Republican race for president.

Trump said that Fox News “is playing games, yeah. 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 these meetings.” .

Now Fox News and Trump are at loggerheads.

Trump told CNN he may skip Thursday night’s primary debate if Fox’s Megyn Kelly doesn’t treat him “fairly”. Ted Cruz of Texas. “So, I want to the debates, they’re good for me”.

Trump’s declaration was an unexpected, if not unpredictable, twist in the final days of the Iowa campaign. “She knows that, I know that, everybody knows that”, he said. I think she’s a third-rate reporter. In a lengthy Vanity Fair profile this month, Kelly boasted of writing the now-famous debate question about Trump’s history of misogynistic comments, which ignited the feud this summer.

“Megyn Kelly has no conflict of interest”.

“Would President Trump ban partial birth abortion?” the late Tim Russert asks Trump in the ad. “No. Look, I am pro-choice in every respect”, Trump answers. Here’s his explanation of what he meant when he said Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever” during the GOP debate.

“I said ‘bye, bye”, Trump said.

Clearly angered by this response, Trump held a press conference in Marshalltown, where he shared his decision to skip the debate.

His absence would change the balance of the debate and give his rivals free shots to attack Trump. “You’re fired”, Cruz said, riffing on Trump’s famous rejoinder from his reality TV show “The Apprentice”. But the Democratic National Committee chairwoman said the party had “no plans” to sanction more debates, and Clinton’s campaign said she’d only participate if the other candidates agree.

Unlike the very stupid, highly incompetent people running our country into the ground, Mr. Trump knows when to walk away.