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Cruz challenges Trump to one-on-one debate

Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 0:15 MJA Uncategorized 48

The Hill: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz says if rival Donald Trump won’t face the entire GOP field in Thursday’s Fox News debate, then he wants to go one-on-one.
“If Donald is afraid of Megyn Kelly, I would like to invite him on your show to participate in a one-on-one debate between me and Donald, mano y mano,” Cruz said during an interview on “The Mark Levin Show,” adding that Trump could choose the moderator.

“And the fact that Donald is now afraid to appear on the debate stage, that he doesn’t want his record questioned, I think that reflects a lack of respect for the men and women of Iowa, that he’s unwilling to go to Des Moines and be questioned.”  more here

48 Comments on Cruz challenges Trump to one-on-one debate

  2. Trump doesnt need the debate He already won iowa, all they have to do now is vote. So even if he went, its only going to be a hit job by FOX.

    its about damn time this bs way of running a “debate” is changed, and if this is the way to do it, count me in. I’m tired of the frikkin news loons picking our candidates.

  5. So you are suggesting that Fox News is out to get Trump The Magnificent, and his way of proving that is to run away and hide rather than stand up to them and defeat them, live, on worldwide television? If I were as magnificent as Trump, I would love the opportunity to face my nemesis for all to see!

    Seems to me he has nothing to gain, and is afraid he may lose, so he ran to Mizzou to find his safe space.

    Trump is a wimp.

  10. He can live rent free in my head all he wants, but he ain’t getting my vote! Ted Cruz is!

    and let me say this again:

    I Will Not Vote For Donald J Trump!

    Not in the primary, not in the general, not for local dog catcher! Trump is a lying POS that should never be in charge of others, and I Will Not cast a vote that gives him that kind of authority!

    Capice?

  15. my first post said – he already won, all they have to do now is vote. I’m just going by the polls and they show him way ahead. Trump doesnt have to do this debate with huge lead, and like i said, i hope this changes the way Americans get their info., and changes the way the media selects and manipulates candidates.

    We shouldnt depend on journalists, (esp liberal journalists) to do our research, or just see or hear sound bites of candidates on their talk shows. We’ve gotten intellectually lazy and havnt done our jobs as voters for years. Now with the internet, IOTW or BB or another website could host debates (hopefully) and use their own real and true conservatives to ask the questions, and maybe even allow for some actual debate.

    (i also think that since Trump is self funding, that he doesnt need the exposure to get donations like the rest.)

  16. There is so much b.s. and speculation coming from everywhere, it’s time for some clarity and here is some.

    “Trump is not just taking on the construct of progressive ideology that has undermined the essence of American exceptionalism; Trump is not just exposing the immense number of faux-conservatives in media and political punditry; Trump is not just allowing us to see the scope of anti-American interest; no, he’s taking on the very selfish foundation they’ve used to sell out our country. Heck, he’s taking on all the “Decepticons” simultaneously.

    In many ways Fox’s Roger Ailes and Republican Mitch McConnell carry the same ideological character trait, deception. For McConnell his deceptive ways allow him to retain power inside the DC construct. For Roger Ailes manipulation benefits his media dominance and political interests.

    Neither McConnell nor Ailes can actually be trusted. However, we are only just beginning to understand the enormity and scope of the previously hidden betrayal.

    It all boils down to a very familiar problem. Would you rather rid yourself of the schemer, manipulator and deceiver who claims to be your friend – and as a consequence face a visible enemy in their stead. Or do you chose to be associated within the camp of a person you can never fully trust.

    The 2014 re-election of Mitch McConnell was a case study in choosing between the lesser of these two evils. If you don’t re-elect him your team may not win control of the Senate; but if you do elect him your team may win control – but you’ll never be able to trust him to do what he says.

    We are all witnessing the 2015 reality of McConnell’s untrustworthy legislative behavior; he lied to get re-elected, and he’s only working on the priorities of Tom Donohue, Wall Street, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.”

    http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/26/urgent-reminder-why-donald-trump-battles-the-fox-news-machine/

  18. Menderman Re your 12.41 comment. Trump is not a whimp. He is
    proving to the American people that the media can be embarrassed and chastised . They are out of control. And even if Trump loses, America has benefited from his outrageousness. The media will never be the same again. They will never be able to feed us the shit they have been feeding us for the past 50 years. It’s over! And for that alone we should be grateful to Donald Trump

  20. This puts Cruz in the same position of WEAKNESS as !Jeb! for exactly the same reason: challenging the current leader who has full control of the decision to do it or not (answer: NOT).

  23. Why should he do this? Let me answer…BECAUSE IT BEST FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! The voters, hello? The Republic. Not that is is best for Donald Trump to win or Ted Cruz to win, but to get down to the true facts about the character of these men and not just the tweets, media sound bites, and all the other septic filth.

  24. Why should Trump debate Cruz? Let me answer…BECAUSE IT BEST FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! The voters need to know now which man has the better character and chance to win. The Republic needs to know. Not that is is best for Donald Trump to win or Ted Cruz to win, but to get down to the true facts about the character of these men and not just the tweets, media sound bites, and all the other septic filth.

  26. TAKE A DEEP BREATH; Meerkat.

    While a normal “debate” is certainly good for the American People who learn about each candidate’s posiitons and opinions on the issues of the day, these are NOT normal debates. Some have been more civil and informative than others. NOT tomorrow’s: Fox has explicitly made it clear their focus is to take down Trump.

    So, WHY would *ANY* candidate in such a position [meaning both A) in the lead…JUST BEFORE THE PRIMARY SEASON OPENS UP, and B) knowing he’s the target of media mobbing] bother to “play along”?!?

    That’s NOT “debating” for the American People;” that would be consciously choosing to be a pinata. AND TRUMP AIN’T A PINATA.

    [My FIRST reaction was to say: if they don’t know enough where each of the candidates stand BY NOW, after all these debates and website info – we’ve got us some nifty internetz these days! – they shouldn’t be voting.]

  27. Czar, we are talking about an open Lincoln-Douglas-type debate. No moderators asking questions. Just a referee, and both candidates questioning and answering each other.

  32. Menderman, your “I’ll vote for Sanders” thing reminds me of a Communist in college who bragged how she voted for Nixon, because “it would bring on the revolution sooner.”

    That’s not smart. You’re better than that.

  33. Meerkat, HOW is it “in the interest of the American People” for Trump to put himself up for THIS KIND OF ABUSE?

    “Fox News and Google have invited three YouTube personalities to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate — including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot and who visually portrayed him as being in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler.”

    It is NOT. Nor is that any sort of pretzel logic.
    (though the Czarina and I sure luvs us some yummy pretzels!)

    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/26/2868743/

  35. Last summer, from the on-start I loved Trump’s crassness towards “The wall” and such. Now his crassness has become twitter craziness, and his followers have become crassness against conservatism.

  38. Umm…I believe the scumwad over at “Got News” (y’know, the guy who writes BREAKING! or EXCLUSIVE! on almost every article?) already outed the identity of Sundunce a long time ago.

    MARK LEVIN’s THREAT TO “reveal” HIM
    MAKES LEVIN HIMSELF LOOK REALLY BAD.

  39. Ummm……Trump helped get McConnell re-elected by giving to his campaign that year and to anti-Tea Party PACs. No conservative business man would funnel money to highly liberal candidate the he has. Sure he can say it is for business reasons, so that means he loves his business more and making money more than getting politicians out of office that are ruining the country. A real conservative wouldn’t give a dime to Senators that are wreaking havoc on our country.

    I don’t see how conservatives can trust Trump over Cruz when Cruz has fought McConnell and the establishment, fought for our Constitutional Rights on the Senate floor and the Supreme Court, is very conservative on immigration, and is conservative on just about everything else. He is the best conservative candidate we have had since Reagan and would be leading if it wasn’t for Trump.

    Trump is not conservative and never has been. He talks about illegal immigration while his companies hire them in construction, hotels, golf courses, etc and his companies have requested 1100 visas for foreign workers.

    Trump takes a strong stand on immigration and military, just as Cruz has all along. Yet he has been liberal on abortion, wants socialized medicine, talks up nicely to Pelosi and Reid and trashes our best conservative hope in Cruz. Yet you Trump supporters think he is some wonderful conservative. Where is the evidence?

    The RHINOs want him to take out Cruz and they are happy to oblige. Dems, RHINO’s, establishment Republicans want Cruz out and want Trump to do it. Shouldn’t that bother you conservatives?

  40. TO jp4: You don’t see? SEE THIS, please:

    CRUZ TIMELINE
    * Elected November 2012
    * Took office January 2013
    * Fought ObamaCare February to Sept 2013

    AND THEN SOMETHING CHANGED.
    * October 2013 – Cruz modifies his relationships within the Senate and joins NRSC and begins giving money from his leadership PAC to GOPe operatives.

    * January 2014 – Cruz announces he will not support any challengers in ’14 mid-term elections.

    * March/April 2014 – Cruz supporting Mitch McConnell.

    * June 2014 – McConnell’s full back-stabbing reaches sunlight over McDaniel in *Mississippi and protection of Thad Cochran.

    * July/August 2014 – Cruz says he doesn’t support McConnell any longer, yet remains on NRSC.

    * December ’14 Post election announces he’s leaving the NRSC.

    * Feb/March ’15 Meets with Paul Ryan and constructs road map for Chamber of Commerce requested, TPP trade deal.

    * April ’15 Pens open letter promoting TPA with Paul Ryan

    * May ’15 Creates “Fast Track” trade rider to attach to TPA changing vote threshold for approval/disapproval to simple majority – thereby insuring its passage. Also votes down amendment requiring congressional notification prior to China/Russia joining deal.

    * May ’15 Becomes first candidate to announce presidential bid.

    * June/July ’15 – Votes against his own TPA bill (cover) even though the rider he created insures its passage.

  41. Why did Trump help get McConnell re-elected?
    Why has Trump help get Schumer, Hillary. Pelosi, Reid re-elected?
    Why has Trump given to anti-Tea Party PACs?
    Why does Trump talk glowingly of Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, but trashes Cruz and calls him nasty and criminal?

    Do you really believe McConnell is directing some lawyer’s PAC to help Cruz?
    McConnell hates Cruz because Cruz called him out on the Senate floor for lying to his party members on an IMF deal with the Dems.

    Do you really believe Cruz is establishment?
    Do you really believe that Cruz is spouting all the conservative stuff and then he will stab us in the back when he gets in office?
    Where is the evidence?

  43. “AT CZAR of D”
    I did see this yesterday when you posted it. Membership of NRSC is your silver bullet?

    For the record I don’t agree with the TPP vote. I’ll give you that but he did try to defund IMF. If he was bought off by banks and big biz he wouldn’t fought to fight IMF which led to him calling out McConnell on the floor.

    However, you ignore everything else positive he has stayed true too and ignore all anti conservative positions of Trump and are willing to blindly trust a salesman that talks a good game on one subject that has never had to vote on anything and put his name to any law or policy.

    Actually he has never voted in a GOP primary, supports liberal policians all over the country, believes in socialized medicine. Yet you trust him more than Cruz and trust him to pick your supreme court justices..

  45. TO JP4

    Wow! I got a promotion to the Natl Repub Senate Committee!
    HA! Thanks for showing you neither read nor understand the daily tedium of governance.

    That :p out of the way, I agree with you on
    CRUZ – TPP as a negative.

    You may be surprised I have the same kinda heartburn
    TRUMP – Eminent Domain/Kelo as a negative

    For me, the TPP is inextricably intertwined with the push to globalism and destruction of sovereignty, so that takes precedence in my book…making “all other positives” moot.

    I understand and appreciate those for whom the E.D. thing is the deal breaker. My choice is otherwise.

  47. (AT CZAR of D)
    So you are a one issue voter (TPP). That is dangerous. What is Trumps solution, put tariffs on everybody. That would work out wonderful, I can see it now. Then we get slapped with tariffs in return.

    Cruz’s initial position on TPP and fast track I didn’t agree with. But the only way he would have approved it was if the bill that he Pete Sessions co-authored would be inserted, stating that there would be no immigration agreements in pact.

    Also, he wanted to let the Export Import bank expire and go away. I listed this as IMF, erroneously in other post. My mistake. These positions were positions held by Pete Sessions who is very tough on immigration, probably the toughest, and these were positions that the establishment disagreed with and the Chamber of Commerce disagreed with.

    So I’m not buying that Cruz is a globalist, bought by big business, and banks. That is just false with no evidence. That argument doesn’t hold water at all. Then in the end he did vote against. You can say he switched positions….OK. I’ll agree. But in the end he listened to the people and made the correct decision.

    You can’t forgive that? You jump to some crazy conclusion that Cruz is a globalists from that.

    But you forgive Trump for a whole truck load of flip flops and funding of Liberal Candidates and anti tea party super pacs. Now you think Trump is some big time conservative?

    Trump was OK with Syrian refugees initially. Now he is against it after Paris and the public opinion moved in that direction.

    So can I make the same conclusion that you made about Cruz on TPP and say that Trump is for Middle East Refugees.

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