Donald Trump Leads, Goes It Alone
GOP front-runner Donald Trump had tough words Tuesday for 3 of his major competitors for the presidential nomination, but his toughest were for Jeb Bush, who he said should “absolutely” drop out of the race.
“He does not have a chance,” Mr. Trump said on TV early Tuesday. “Look, Jeb is a nice guy, he is a stiff. He ought to do what Walker did, and drop out.”
Less than 24 hrs after 11 GOP presidential campaigns agreed to cut the RNC out of negotiations for network debates, Donald Trump’s camp has opted to go at it alone.
2 Trump Campaign officials were at Sunday night’s meeting in Washington, D.C. in which a plan was hammered out for the campaigns to return to the practice of negotiating directly with networks hosting debates, but it was reported that the Trump Campaign did not sign the group’s letter drafted there.
“If they want to send their own letter, that’s fine – a letter’s a letter,” Dr. Ben Carson’s campaign manager Barry Bennett reporters
“The Trump folks were clear about what they wanted, and the Carson campaign agrees with them 90 percent of the time. We’re getting opening and closing statements. We’re going to get some parity in questions. We’re going to actually get formats announced to the campaigns. Trump is basically asking for the same thing, he’s just going to do [it] with his own letterhead.”
The major differences between the 2 front-runners, Donald Trump and Dr. Carson is that Dr. Carson wanted more candidates onstage rather than relegating those with the lowest poll ratings on an “Undercard” debate.
That, Mr. Bennett said, is because, “They do not want more people onstage, because they think that would mean more people taking shots at him.” But Mr. Bennett said more people onstage would actually help Trump most “as everyone’s going to want to divide the time evenly.”
The Sunday meeting was called after last week’s ragged CNBC debate.
The cable business channel had said the debate would focus on economic issues, but the moderators veered into other areas, including asking Donald Trump if he was running a “Comic Book” campaign and asking Mike Huckabee, an ordained minister, if Donald Trump had the moral authority to lead the nation.
10 GOP candidates’ campaigns are still on board with their demands to renegotiate future debate terms with the nation’s TV networks, even after Donald Trump said he would speak with the networks himself and three other candidates said they do not want their campaigns to be involved.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” that he’s glad the campaigns want to have more control over the debate process.
The candidates have said they want a commitment from networks to switch from “gotcha” questions and from trying to get the candidates to fight amongst each other. They also want debates that only last for two hours, and more conservative moderators to run the events.
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