Michael phelps show up to a basketball game like that . Hey, good friday morning. Right to the top story here, that unusual Republican Debate just three days until the high stakes Iowa Caucuses and the frontrunner, well, he wasnt there. Yeah, so seven top candidates agreed to show up and be quizzed by fox news moderators by donald trump refused because he didnt like one of the moderators, megyn kelly. So, who did that decision help and would did it hurt . Lana zak joins us from des moines with your voice, your vote. Good morning, lana. Reporter good morning, reena and good morning, kendis. You know, donald trump wasnt even on the debate main stage but there was still plenty of memorable moments however most of them were about donald trump. It was the final debate before the first votes are cast in iowa and the national frontrunner was absent. Not in the room tonight. Still, Donald Trumps influence was felt. Everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. Now that weve gotten the donald trump portion out of the way. Reporter but ted cruzs jokes turned tense. The last four questions have been, rapid, please attack ted, chris, please attack ted. Jeb, please attack jeb. Let me say this it is a debate, sir. If you guys ask one more mean question i may have to leave the stage. Reporter setting marco rubio up for the first of several applause lines. Dont worry, im not leaving the stage no matter what you ask me. All usa, usa. Reporter a few miles away trump held his own event. I didnt want to be here, i have to be honest. I wanted to be five minutes away. Reporter and raised millions for veterans. Will i get more or less votes . Reporter the candidates took on issues from abortion. Lets get rid of planned parenthood funding. Reporter to immigration. Used to support a path to citizenship. So did you. Reporter how is this for a wild card, the debate moderators were actually prepared for the possibility that trump could arrive even after the debate started. I have to tell you, nothing like this has happened in recent years in iowa and led to a very memorable evening. Yeah, we didnt know what was going to happen. Very interesting. Lana, thank you very much. Truly has been exciting. It does appear this hour that Donald Trumps decision to skip the debate might be paying off. Experts say this debate was a frontrunners easiest win yet. Without trumps presence there was no obvious standout candidate. According to matthew dowd. The biggest winner of this politically was donald trump. I think if you pick somebody on stage, i think rand paul actually did the best. I thought marco rubio won the first half but faded in the pick somebody that did well and seemed to do best without donald trump there, it was rand paul. If youre looking for concrete numbers an important poll will be released from the de niro register des moines register. Media. The most talked about on google. On facebook these were the most talked about issues, immigration, isis and islam and muslims. Stay with abc news for complete coverage. More analysis on good morning america. We should note the next Republican Debate will be right here on abc saturday, february 6th in new hampshire. Moderated by world news tonight anchor david muir and coanchored by martha raddatz. In case you havent had your fill the democrats add one more, Hillary Clinton and Martin Omalley agreed to another on a reversal for clinton who originally tried to keep them at a minimum. Now she says shes waiting for sanders to agree. Abcs Jonathan Karl asked sanders whats up. I wanted more debates from day one. Reporter i know. Wasnt the clinton people interested. What happened now that they want more debates . Whats changed clinton used to be the clear frontrunner. Now sanders is surging. Debates can be risky for anyone in the lead. Stay tuned to this one. A teacher arrested for providing Material Support to nose three escapees from a Southern California jail. This woman taught english as a second language at the jail and suspected of giving the inmates google maps, and authorities released the photos of this van that was stolen and say the escapees may be living in it. The four remaining militia members still at the oregon leave if no one is is arrested. This video was released showing Lavoy Finicum being shot by the state police. They say finicum was killed after twice reaching for a loaded weapon. The socalled affluenza teen ethan couch is in a texas juvenile detention center. Couch and his mother fled to mexico in december after a video surfaced with him at a party with alcohol. 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