Former President Donald Trump will skip the third Republican debate, once again snubbing his rivals as he holds a commanding lead in the polls for the GOP nomination.
“He isn’t going,” Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign senior adviser, confirmed to NBC News on Thursday.
The next debate will be held in Miami on Nov. 8, a short drive from Trump’s Florida residence.
Republican hopefuls debated without Trump for a second time on Wednesday night, with several candidates stepping up their attacks on the former president.
Trump told the Daily Caller in an interview published Thursday that he would not attend the third debate and indicated Republicans should rally around him, declaring there is “not going to be a breakout candidate.”
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