Posted on 01/27/2016 7:39:52 PM PST by Isara
WEST DES MOINES, IA - Today, presidential candidate Ted Cruz invited Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate held before Iowa Republican voters caucus and make their selection for president. The event would take place at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City this Saturday, January 30th at 8:00 p.m. Cruz suggested the moderators either be radio hosts Mark Levin, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, or that the format simply be questions from the audience.
"We owe it to the men and women of Iowa to ensure that they hear jointly and directly from the two leading Republican candidates so that they may contrast our positions on the critical issues we face as a nation as they make their final choice leading up to Monday's caucuses," said Cruz.
The venue has already been reserved and the Cruz campaign anxiously awaits a response from Donald Trump.
The full letter from Cruz:
January 27, 2016
Dear Donald,
We owe it to the men and women of Iowa to ensure that they hear jointly and directly from the two leading Republican candidates so that they may contrast our positions on the critical issues we face as a nation as they make their final choice leading up to Monday's caucuses.
Accordingly, please accept this invitation to join me at an in-person, two-hour Town Hall event at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City this Saturday, January 30th at 8:00 p.m. Central. This venue is already reserved and I would propose that our campaigns evenly divide available seating/ticketing. Our teams can jointly work on the logistical details.
Additionally, I propose one of the following three individuals serve as a Town Hall facilitator: Mark Levin, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh. If none of these proposed individuals are acceptable to you, I suggest that instead we alternate in fielding direct questions from the audience.
I look forward to your timely response.
Ted
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Yeah, this is what Winners do, duck and hide, run from the fight.
Your guy is looking bad. Now he’s saying, “he probably won’t be at the debate”. “I so mistreated” Waa Waa.
Ten bucks to a hole in a donut says he will come back to the debate leaving a shiney slick trail like a slug.
Poor Donald, he is trying to weasle out of this one and people are not making it easy.
Go away! You lit Trump exits, you will not be nominated. Jeb will be. Jeb is surging in New Hampshire. Leftist media will filet you.
We’ve wanted a candidate who would actually take action against the media. We have one in Trump.
You all were praying for a candidate that would be able to take GOPe, Democrats& media down. You got one in Trump.
You and your supporters are angry that God chose someone other than you.
And Trump’s campaign manager Corey says it if can be worked out with the RNC and their stringent rules, then fine..No problem with debate. Methinks Cruz should be careful what he asks for.
What rules? Trump doesn’t have to debate. You don’t make the rules for him and neither does Ted.
Too bad, don’t vote for him then. I really do not care. If that is okay with you since you make the rules.
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Cruz just trumped Trump! His PAC will donate $1.5 mil to Vets if Trump will debate him one on one....
Foolish campaign tactic.
Since Teds PAC has 1 1/2 to spare, then WHY doesn’t Teds PAC just give them the money and not just dangle the money in front of Vets teasing them?
Good point.
Iowa is no weather vane.
At some point you have to count delegates.
That includes Ted Cruz.
Correct. This whole FOX thing has very little to do with Kelly and everything to do with not wanting to face specific and detailed issues.
Personally, I think Donald is in love... again. Hence this obsession with Megyn. Melanin better keep an eye on him, so her old man does not go for a newer model.
come out and play Donny.
First, he didn’t say Love & Kisses, Ted, - he just signed it, Ted - really not friendly. In other words, the Canadian Border Jumper Cruzer man is really getting clanked - he sees he’s about to get whipped like a rented mule, by a guy who never even went to Harvard Law School - oh the excruciating shame of it all.
So he has the money to donate to Vets, but he wants something out of it.
There's an idea. Let Jeb and Ted debate each other. The winner can then petition to debate the leader.
Apparently he would rule with a cellphone and a pen.
Where’s his Goldman Sachs Cap?
Because it is a two man race; and everyone knows it.
Trump Invites Cruz to Pound Sand
—News at eleven.
Trump Invites Cruz to Pound Sand
—News at eleven.
Because Trump knows he'd get clobbered. He is afraid to debate Cruz one-on-one.
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