The optics are quite incredible. The Trump-less Fox News debate feels like a rerun without its star. Same questions. Same answers. Zero charisma. Meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump announced that he used his contacts to raise more than $5 million for America’s veterans, Standing by his side are Trump’s GOP primary rivals Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee.
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Here we are just 4 days from the Iowa Caucus and the iconoclast Trump has not only stolen the thunder and headlines from his seven rivals in the Fox News debate, he has also managed to spend the evening with the two Republicans who most recently won the Iowa Caucus.
In 2012, Santorum won Iowa.
In 2008, Huckabee won Iowa.
And these two men are standing side-by-side with Trump on the Thursday night before the voting begins.