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DES MOINES, Iowa (The Adobo Chronicles) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not be participating in Thursday’s FOX News GOP Debate in Iowa.

Trump’s campaign said that the billionaire real estate mogul is skipping the debate because of an ongoing rift with FOX News, particularly Megyn Kelly with whom he has had some feisty exchange in a previous FOX News debate. Trump believes that Kelly is biased against him.

But the center podium will not be vacant.

Trump announced today that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will stand in for him. Palin just days ago formally endorsed the GOP frontrunner.

“We needed to have someone who could come face to face with another woman debate moderator like Kelly so that the playing field would be more fair and square, the Trump campaign said, adding that ” in as far as policies and ideologies are concerned, the governor and Trump are on the same footing.”

Trump's daughter Ivanka on the $100 bill — Trump’s daughter Ivanka on the $100 bill

SIMI VALLEY, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Last July, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced plans for a redesign of the $10 bill, marking the first time in more than a century that a woman will be featured on a U.S. bill. The newly designed $10 bill will be issued by 2020—in time for the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment (women suffrage).

At last night’s Republican presidential debate, moderators asked the candidates which woman they would put on the $10 bill. Here’s how each of them responded:

Rand Paul: Susan B. Anthony, suffragist

Mike Huckabee: His wife, Janet

Marco Rubio: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks

Ted Cruz: Put Rosa Parks on the $20 bill and keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10

Ben Carson: His mother, Sonyam

Jeb Bush: Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister mj

Donald Trump: His daughter, but he’d like her to be on the $100 bill.

Carly Fiorina: “We shouldn’t change the $10 dollar bill or the $20 dollar bill. I think, honestly, it’s a gesture. I don’t think it helps to change our history. What I would think is that we ought to recognize that women are not a special interest group. Women are the majority of this nation, we are half the potential of this nation and this nation will be better off when every woman has the opportunity to live the life she chooses.”

Scott Walker: American Red Cross founder Clara Barton

Chris Christy: First Lady Abigail Adams

John Kasich: Nobel Peace Prize-winner Mother Teresa