Here’s a quick rundown on all the details of tonight’s Republican presidential debate.
Republican candidates Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are set to be the only four candidates on the debate stage in Detroit.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Wednesday he would not attend the debate and sees no “path forward” for his campaign, but did not formally drop out of the race.
The debate, hosted by Fox News, is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET at the Fox Theater in Detroit and last for two hours. Fox News anchors Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace are slated to moderate the debate.
The debate comes before a slew of contests in Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, and Kentucky on Saturday, Puerto Rico on Sunday, and Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, and Mississippi on Tuesday.
adjusted to fit those three days…
I won’t be watching.
I will watch briefly, just to see if Trump loses it. (Not the debate, but his cool.)
Rehearsal for tonight’s debate:
I have one question I want answered tonight, given that Trump is clearly the front runner, and based on polling, has a very good chance at becoming the nominee.
What about his businesses?
Turning them over to his wife and/or children is laughable, it does nothing to remove the considerable conflicts of interests that are in play. And given that so much of his holdings are tied up in very high profile pieces of real estate, the “blind trust” arrangement isn’t feasible either.
And, though I know FOX won’t follow up with this, bear in mind that the man is literally paying himself to run for President right now at unprecedented levels. He and his staff fly his airlines exclusively…paying the airlines. They stay at Trump properties. They eat at Trump restaurants. Hell, even his campaign payroll is being handled by his Trump payroll company…which is being paid to do so. All of this has already been dug up by reviewing his campaign’s expenses. So he is quite literally taking money from his campaign and paying it to his own businesses. And nobody is saying “boo” about it.