Donald Trump’s absence at the first GOP primary debate is just the latest example of the former president’s unprecedented refusal to make his case directly to voters.
In the months leading up to debate night in Milwaukee, other contenders have been traversing the early primary states, shaking hands with voters and holding intimate grassroots events. But Trump has held fewer than 40 campaign events since entering the race way back in November, and just 17 of those events have been in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, according to a National Review analysis.
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