Donald Trump's Ineligibility for the first GOP Presidential Debate

The first Republican presidential debate will be on August 23rd. To qualify for the debate under the party's rules, you have to be constitutionally eligible to run for President. Under that criterion, another candidate qualified for the debate would be within his or her rights to challenge Donald Trump's participation due to Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.

This may explain why press reports indicate that Trump is thinking about skipping the first debate. He would thereby avoid such a challenge (for the time being).