Stephen Colbert Moderates a “Donald Trump Versus Donald Trump” Debate

The other candidates really couldn’t resist mocking Mr Trump for boycotting the final debate. “Now that we’ve gotten the Trump portion out of the way…”

Stephen Colbert moderated a debate between Donald Trump and Donald Trump.

“I was treated very unfairly by Fox”. Colbert ended the “all-Trump” debate by thanking both Trumps for “being just as divided as this country is”.

“Actually, I’m glad I wasn’t there ’cause I guess all of that – he got pummeled, wow”, Trump said.

CNN has reached out to Fox News for a comment.

Inevitably present though absent, Trump was the early target but then largely forgotten. The stakes are highest for Sen.

But their claim seemed to have been undermined when Ted Cruz revealed what Kelly called the front-runner off-camera. So how did Cruz handle the spotlight? “Donald is a fragile soul”.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is third at eight percent, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at six percent and Florida ex-governor Jeb Bush at five percent.

In total, Trump’s antisocial debate behavior won him almost 31,000 new Twitter followers and more than 17,000 new Facebook followers, according to Engagement Labs. This is probably one of Jeb Bush’s best performance of all the debates. He will now be without his favorite antagonist on stage.

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On the plus side for Fox, CNN and MSNBC combined – the two channels that carried most of Trump’s improvised event Thursday night – drew less than a quarter of the debate audience.

We’ll find out on Monday whether Trump’s social media windfall, err, trumps his absence at the debate.

While Trump’s fundraiser – held at Drake University at the same time as the GOP debate – did not outpace Fox News’s viewership, the GOP debate in Des Moines was not as highly rated as other Republican primary debates.

Democrats stuck to the usual scripts in Iowa, just days before voters caucus there. “They care about who’s going to be the leader of the free world”.

Republican presidential candidates are holding a TV debate in the USA state of Iowa.

The prime-time event lacked some of the heat Trump often injects into debates and instead focused largely on policy.

ONE News US correspondent Jack Tame says Trump’s decision not to debate is a gamble. Heck, downright likeable by another candidate who usually doesn’t get many Mr. Congeniality votes. “Did you skip me?”