Two candidates who were not sleeping – but who were also relegated to the curious “kiddie table” debate that the networks have used this election season – showed up at Trump’s rally.
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Instead, Trump went ahead with his own fundraiser.
Texas senator Ted Cruz, locked in a tight contest with Mr Trump in Iowa, opened the debate with a sarcastic impression of the property mogul’s frequent insults of his opponents.
“I’m a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly”, Cruz replied.
Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier hit back at Trump in a statement Friday, knocking the NY billionaire’s past support for legal abortion and praiseworthy comments about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “And hey, Howie, I think I did a smart thing”, Trump told Boston radio host Howie Carr, laughing.
A new website put up by to raise money for veterans’ causes directs all contributions to the Republican presidential candidate’s personal foundation, online news outlet The Federalist reports.
The fight between Fox News and Donald Trump is getting messier by the minute.
And he’s poking fun at Donald Trump for not being on the debate stage in Des Moines.
He said donations form the event totalled more than $6million. The network said Trump offered to appear at the debate if Fox agreed to contribute $5 million to his charities.
He previously blasted the glamorous blonde journalist as a “lightweight”, and posted raunchy photographs of her online yesterday calling her a “bimbo”.
Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump speaks as rival candidate Sen. Jason Carsello, another Drake student and Sanders supporter, said he wanted to the “cultural difference” between Sanders and Trump events.
Trump joked that he would debate Cruz in Canada “to give him home-field advantage”, but did promise to attend next Saturday’s GOP debate in Manchester, N.H.
There’s only so many times you can watch, say, Ted Cruz try to explain his stance on immigration before you tune out.
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Fox News will still certainly argue that the debate was a big deal for the network as it was the second highest-rated telecast in the network’s 20-year history. Heck, downright likeable by another candidate who usually doesn’t get many Mr. Congeniality votes. St. Edward’s University political science professor Brian Smith said missing the debate hasn’t done any harm for Trump.
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