During that interview, Trump told Kelly that she was doing a “great job” moderating the GOP debates.
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Trump’s supporters subsequently threatened Kelly and the candidate himself attacked the journalist in various TV appearances.
Cruz, after a series of questions, said: “If you ask me one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage”. Chris Christie saying, “Last night was a lot of fun”.
Separate surveys taken by Politico and political consultant Frank Luntz said that Rubio had the strongest debate performance, with one New Hampshire Republican voter calling him “the most articulate of the candidates on a variety of issues, and the most aspirational of the Republicans onstage”.
Last-minute phone calls with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes failed to resolve their dispute, which broke out just days before next week’s Iowa caucuses, the first nominating contest for the November 8 presidential election.
It certainly could be that people are getting sick of watching the Republican candidates debate. Lord knows, she would have reason to be: After she questioned Trump sharply at the first debate concerning how he talks about women, Trump suggested that she was hormonal. He insisted at his alternative event that he wanted to participate in the debate, but it was important to “stand up for myself” after being “mistreated”. Colbert ended the “all-Trump” debate by thanking both Trumps for “being just as divided as this country is”. “Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings”, Fox said in a statement Tuesday, making this already surreal saga even more unusual. He later added that he hoped to earn the support of Trump’s voters. “Megyn Kelly’s really biased against me”, he said in an Instagram video that day.
Rival Ted Cruz comes in second with 23 percent.
47 percent of likely GOP caucus-goers identified themselves as evangelicals in the poll. I’m glad I wasn’t there.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, a frequent Trump target, said: ‘I kind of miss Donald Trump; he was a teddy bear to me’.
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It is unknown what role Trump’s absence played in Thursday’s ratings, but it is clear that Fox’s ratings did far better than the “1 or 2 million” that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said would happen with Trump’s absence. “So he got beaten pretty badly last night”.
