Donald Trump doesn’t like Fox’s Megyn Kelly.
Kelly – who Trump said may be “bleeding out of her wherever” after the anchor asked, during the first GOP debate, whether the frontrunner thinks calling women “fat pigs” and “disgusting animals” is appropriate for a presidential candidate – is a moderator for Thursday’s debate in Des Moines, and Trump said on Monday that Fox would sooner remove Kelly from the panel then risk losing the debate’s main attraction.
“@Belizediver88: @CNNSitRoom @CNN @megynkelly It will never happen. Fox will drop Kelly if it means no Trump. Nobody will watch w/o Trump.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2016
This time, apparently, Trump was mistaken.
“Megyn Kelly is an excellent journalist, and the entire network stands behind her,” Roger Ailes said in a statement on Tuesday. “She will absolutely be on the debate stage on Thursday night.”
That prompted Trump to poll the audience.
Should I do the #GOPdebate? https://t.co/cjTywwIl85
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2016
“She’s biased against me, she knows that, I know that. Do you really think she can be fair at a debate?,” Trump asked in the following video posted to the billionaire’s Instagram page:
“I probably won’t bother doing the debate,” he told a crowd in Iowa on Tuesday.
“He’s definitely not participating in the Fox News debate,” campaign manager Corey Lewandowski confirmed.
The question now is whether this will affect the Iowa caucuses. How will the electorate view a candidate who can’t be “bothered” to debate the issues because he doesn’t like the questions?
If history is any guide, voters simply won’t care. Thus far, Trump’s larger than life persona has outweighed concerns about his ability to govern and if America isn’t concerned about his ability to govern, then the issues simply don’t matter and neither does the debate. We’ll leave it to readers to determine what that says about the state of America’s democracy and simply close with the following soundbite from Megyn Kelly:
“What’s interesting here is Trump is not used to not controlling things. The truth is, he doesn’t get to control the media, and while he’s made his position clear about me after that first debate, Roger Ailes made his position clear too.”
“I’ll be there.”
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1PEa0eY Tyler Durden