Donald Trump has decided the third Republican presdiential debate is stacked against him – and said so nine hours before it began.
On
the heels of a speech to a packed crowd in Sioux City, Iowa, Trump
tweeted his prediction that a CNBC-hosted debate in Boulder, Colorado
will be geared to help his opponents.
'After
a great evening and packed auditorium in Iowa, I am now in Colorado
looking forward to what I am sure will be a very unfair debate!' he
wrote Wednesday morning on Twitter.
Trump will be at center-stage when the ten poll-leading GOP White House hopefuls square off.
Despite
falling behind Dr. Ben Carson in a national New York Times/CBS News
poll this week, he maintains a strong lead in an average of recent
opinion surveys and is far ahead in every state except Iowa.
He insisted to Politico on Wednesday that he meant what he wrote, saying: 'No, I don't expect the debate to be fair.'
Spokespersons
for five different Trump rivals declined to swing at him following his
pre-emptive complaints, with one confiding on background that 'we're not
going to poke that bear.'
CNBC
moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood are expected
to deliver an even-handed performance, but Trump himself might be the
beneficiary of any bias that leaks through.
His
hit show 'The Apprentice' is syndicated in reruns on the financial
network as often as four times a week, and he has been a regular guest
on the popular CNBC show 'Squawk Box' for years.
As recently as three years ago Trump enjoyed a regular segment branded as 'Trump Tuesdays.'
Quintanilla
told Politico that Trump has been 'a valuable source of information
regarding real estate' duing his broadcasts – 'which is obviously huge;
housing is 15 percent of the economy. Getting his expertise over the
years has been valuable.'
'If I thought that he had some sort of edge [for the debate] I would tell you,' he said, 'but it doesn’t seem to be.'
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