Looking at last night’s GOP debate, and Trump’s absence
Listen 00:49:53Guests: Mona Charen, Jeffrey Lord, Sean Trende
The Republican presidential candidates faced off last night at the Fox News Debate in Des Moines, the final GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses on Monday. Notably absent was frontrunner Donald Trump ,who backed out citing unfair treatment by Fox’s Megyn Kelly. Today on Radio Times, we’ll look at how the candidates did and if Trump’s decision to boycott the debate helped or hurt him. Marty’s guests are MONA CHAREN, syndicated columnist and political analyst, JEFFREY LORD, CNN commentator and author of What America Needs: A Case for Trump, and SEAN TRENDE, senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics.
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