Fox News said Trump had demanded a $5 million charitable contribution to get him to appear, but the network said no.
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With his crusade against Fox this week, Trump set a precedent: For the first time, the GOP frontrunner was standing up against a network that has unparalleled influence on Republican voters.
As Kelly interviewed the Texas senator later in the evening, he told her: “Well, you know, you were joking just before we went on air that it was sort of like Voldemort, he who must not be named”.
“The “debate” tonight will be a total disaster”, Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday morning.
The breaking point came with a Fox statement Tuesday that it “learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet him if he becomes president”.
“But once this started, it’s for our (veterans), there was nothing I could do”.
There’s been a half dozen of them in the run up to next week’s caucuses in Iowa.
Pew’s survey found that Republicans are watching the debates in higher percentages than Democrats or independents, and that GOP viewers are less interested in seeing candidates from the other party. Trump mused. “But we raised over $5 million in one day!”
Hundreds of Trump supporters were seen waiting for hours to enter the auditorium for the event organised at a short notice after the real estate tycoon had a simmering feud with the conservative Fox News, which hosted the primary debate.
“If you guys ask one more mean question”, Cruz said, “I’m going to have to leave the stage”.
And of course there’s Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who went from “doing a great job” in 2011 to being “not very good at what she does” and “highly overrated” this year. “They just waited a long time”, he said.
“I like Ted Cruz a lot”, Trump argued.
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The big question that remained among Republicans after Thursday night’s GOP Presidential debate in Iowa was whether Ted Cruz can catch Donald Trump. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich greet the crowd at Thursday’s Fox News debate. That’s an increase of 13 percent from the last debate with Trump in the mix earlier this month on Fox Business Network.
