Despite Trump’s absence, Thursday’s debate was the second-largest audience ever for a Fox News telecast, beaten only by the first Republican presidential debate in 2015 with 24 million viewers.
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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump maintain wide leads in their respective primary races in New Hampshire, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
The final poll before the Iowa caucus – the first formal contest in the race to the White House – shows the businessman is ahead by five per cent. “We have more cameras than they do by quite a bit”.
Earlier this week, Trump had changed his mind: “I have zero respect for Megyn Kelly”.
Fox News refused to remove her as debate moderator, insisting that she was not biased.
Baby-faced Florida senator Marco Rubio won 15 per cent of the vote, with former brain surgeon Ben Carson on 10. “In fact, the entire hour lead up to this there was no conversation about any of the four people on this debate stage”, Santorum said. “And I’ll tell you this: If we nominate a candidate who supports amnesty, a candidate who has the same position on amnesty as Hillary Clinton, we will lose”.
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.
“I really do. I like Ted Cruz a lot”, Trump said in a clip from December, 11, 2015.
“Welcome to debate night Americana style, a nation in the balance”, Colbert said on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.
The debate was not attended by the Republican leader Donald Trump.
Results for each sample are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
With just two days before the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump remains in the top spot among Iowa Republicans.
On the Democratic side, Clinton holds a narrow lead over Sanders, 45% to 42%. On ABC News, Trump called Cruz a “total liar” for suggesting that the real estate mogul had a plan for health care that was similar to Obamacare. I think we’ve worked very hard. Ted Cruz and Clinton polling marginally higher than Sanders.
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“There is no reason why you can’t stand for principles, go and fight for them, and be able also to have to get things done in government”, said Gov. Chris Christie, (R) presidential candidate.
