Donald Trump Moderated Debate Losing Attendees

Donald Trump Moderated

The Republican presidential debate moderated by Donald Trump for Newsmax is losing participants quickly, ABC News reported.
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann became the latest candidate to opt out of the debate schedule for Dec. 27 in Des Moines, Iowa. A spokeswoman for the candidate declined to elaborate as to why she would not attend the debate.
“We have confirmed that we are not participating,” Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said to ABC News Thursday.
Bachmann, like many of the other Republican candidates, have been trying to curry favor with the New York billionaire real estate mogul, paying several visits to his offices hoping for an endorsement.
Now she will be joining Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry and Ron Paul in not attending the Trump-moderated debate. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are the only confirmed attendees.
Politico reported that Santorum criticized his fellow candidates for meeting up with Trump while at the same time opting out of the debate.
“Many of my opponents jockeyed to be the first to fly up to New York and use Donald Trump for a photo op and no doubt try and secure an endorsement. But when Donald wants to moderate a debate – they refuse to attend. That’s what’s so wrong with politics today – hypocrisy,” Santorum said.
Santorum has been struggling to attract publicity to his campaign and is using the debate opportunity with Gingrich to promote his platform.

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