Iowa poll: Trump builds on lead over Cruz

Before his speech, he ushered members of the Hawkeye football team on stage, and while on stage Trump said, “They were so nice, they endorsed Trump”.

Another Republican hopeful, U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, told Fox News that he welcomed Trump’s absence from the debate stage because it means “we don’t have to put up with a lot of empty blather and boastfulness and calling people names”. Ted Cruz for goading him on.

Interest in Trump’s rivals will grow, and he won’t be around to suck up all the oxygen in a debate, as he usually does. In Trump’s case, Rose said, the UI College Republicans sponsored the event. “Be a man, take it and answer the questions ’cause you’re going to get that from everybody”.

Meanwhile, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough reported on air that Fox News was reaching out to Trump. I’m Donald Trump. Anybody can do this.

Bernie Sanders says he does not want to jeopardize his participation in future party debates, so he’s staying out. “He’s a bully”, said Yak.

Weather is always an unpredictable factor of the caucuses, which typically draw hundreds of thousands of Iowans to precinct gatherings to choose presidential candidates and conduct political party business.

Further, if elected, Trump would have to deal with much worse than tough questions from Kelly, O’Reilly said. “You know Donald is a very fragile soul”. The liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America said that its researchers have found that Fox has covered Trump for two and a half times as long as any other candidate.

O’Reilly accused Trump of being “petty”, and said he was allowing things that are out of his control to have outsized influence over his decision-making process.

“He’s such a common name, it’s not going to hurt him at all”.

Also in a delicate spot is the network, which has engaged in a fraught relationship with Trump for months after he tangled with moderator Megyn Kelly in the first debate in August.

Cruz has challenged Trump to a 90 minute one-on-one debate – no word yet whether Trump will accept the challenge, but Trump did fire off a tweet, saying, “Even though I beat him in the first six debates, especially the last one, Ted Cruz wants to debate me again”.

Deanna Scully is a registered Democrat, who is leaning toward supporting Hillary Clinton.

“In (the recent) Politico interview, the President himself noted he was not a big fan of participating in presidential debates, but he never backed out of a debate two days before it was scheduled to be held”.

On Wednesday, taking as he so often does to his Twitter account, Trump insisted that his decision to pull out of the debate was not due to the presence of Megyn Kelly, but rather to a “childishly written” press release issued by Fox after the Trump campaign on Tuesday made the initial announcement that the real estate tycoon and former reality TV personality would skip the debate in protest of Kelly.