“After refusing to participate in the first two Republican debates, former President Donald Trump and aides to his campaign have spent the past week arguing that there should be no more. The Republican National Committee, they say, should treat the race for the party’s nomination as over, given Mr. Trump’s large lead in the polls,” the New York Times reports.
“But in interviews on Thursday, more than a dozen members of the R.N.C. suggested that they were giving little weight to the Trump campaign’s appeal.”
“Two members of the party’s debate committee said the notion of canceling debates had not even risen to the level of discussion on the committee.”
