On Wednesday evening, the Trump campaign handed down a brutal ultimatum to the other GOP presidential candidates and the Republican National Committee (RNC) in response to the Second GOP debate held in Simi Valley, California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

“Tonight’s GOP debate was as boring and inconsequential as the first debate, and nothing that was said will change the dynamics of the primary contest being dominated by President Trump,” Senior Trump Campaign Advisor Chris LaCivita wrote.

“The RNC should immediately put an end to any further primary debates so we can train our fire on Crooked Joe Biden and quit wasting time and money that could be going to evicting Biden from the White House,” he added.

“No more games. End the wannabe clown show,” Trump Senior Advisor Jason Miller added.

The debate has received mixed reviews but nearly every outlet agreed that leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came out as the clear winner in the debate by not attending.

According to recent polling accumulated by FiveThirtyEight, President Trump enjoys 54 percent support from the Republican base while his rivals are far behind him.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has 13.8 percent support, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH) has 6.3 percent support, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (R-SC) has 6.2 percent support, former Vice President Mike Pence holds 4.6 percent of the base, former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is able to convince 2.9 percent of primary voters, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) can only manage 2.7 percent support. All other candidates have less than two percent support in the national polls.

Given this massive lead over the competition, Trump has refused to attend the debates and give the other candidates an opportunity to attack him in front of millions of Republican voters. Many have regarded that as a smart strategy in order to avoid any unnecessary damage that could hurt his lead, particularly in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

As Trump’s lead continues to grow the necessity of the Republican debates seems increasingly futile. The third Republican debate is scheduled to take place on November 8th. If no candidate is able to make any considerable gains in the polls by that point then the RNC should consider scrapping it all together.