--- title: Donald Trump: Twitter Says He Should Do Republican Debate description: Twitter users voted in a poll Trump posted, saying he should attend the FOX News hosted debate—even though he's been feuding with them. canonical: https://time.com/4196298/donald-trump-republican-debate-twitter/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T19:19:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:29:49.546Z article:section: Politics og:title: Twitter Says Donald Trump Should Go to the Republican Debate og:description: Trump had said he would not participate in the Fox News debate og:url: https://time.com/4196298/donald-trump-republican-debate-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16d8ecdd8fbaea33/69887ac6cf40a81a4cc41a7b/donald-trump-presidential-election-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: donald-trump-presidential-election-iowa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twitter Says Donald Trump Should Go to the Republican Debate twitter:description: Trump had said he would not participate in the Fox News debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16d8ecdd8fbaea33/69887ac6cf40a81a4cc41a7b/donald-trump-presidential-election-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Twitter Says Donald Trump Should Go to the Republican Debate by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 27, 2016 7:19 PM UTC  Donald Trump greets supporters at a rally on Jan. 26, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. Donald Trump greets supporters at a rally on Jan. 26, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.Natalie Keyssar for TIME by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 27, 2016 7:19 PM UTC Twitter users say Donald Trump [should participate](http://time.com/4195194/donald-trump-skip-fox-debate/) in Thursday’s Republican presidential debate. Trump posted a poll on Twitter asking his followers if he should “do the #GOPdebate” and 56% responded yes, he should. The Republican front-runner [declined Tuesday](http://time.com/4195194/donald-trump-skip-fox-debate/) to participate in a presidential debate hosted by Fox News, escalating a feud between the candidate and the network, which stems from a [back-and-forth](http://time.com/4046681/trump-boycott-fox-news/) between Trump and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Trump has been trying to stop Kelly from moderating any Republican debate, since she questioned him bluntly in August about past comments he had made about women. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/692045676079874048) The poll had 157,864 Twitter users participate in just a day. Trump has been actively tweeting his dissatisfaction with Fox and Kelly since Tuesday. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/692331943132794882) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/692312112115380224) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4196298/donald-trump-republican-debate-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4196298/donald-trump-republican-debate-twitter/"},"headline":"Twitter Says Donald Trump Should Go to the Republican Debate","datePublished":"2016-01-27T19:19:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:29:49.546Z","description":"Trump has said he would not participate","url":"https://time.com/4196298/donald-trump-republican-debate-twitter/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump","fox news","Debates"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16d8ecdd8fbaea33/69887ac6cf40a81a4cc41a7b/donald-trump-presidential-election-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16d8ecdd8fbaea33/69887ac6cf40a81a4cc41a7b/donald-trump-presidential-election-iowa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald-trump-presidential-election-iowa","caption":"Donald Trump greets supporters at a rally on Jan. 26, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.","creditText":"Natalie Keyssar for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4196298/donald-trump-republican-debate-twitter/","name":"Twitter Says Donald Trump Should Go to the Republican Debate"}}]}] ```