“Clearly Trump was the catalyst for the audience”, said Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor who has written extensively about presidential debates.
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“I think he took out a gun and shot his campaign in the head”, said Florida Republican strategist Rick Wilson.
The Republicans, who first thought of Trump as a disaster, now must look at him as a godsend.
Pundits on morning talk shows, conservative blogs and in newspapers said Rubio’s ability to play on his working-class roots, articulate an optimistic vision for the country and artfully zing Clinton helped him stand out on a stage of forceful personalities that included brash businessman Donald Trump.
“He is saying these things at a time when the Republican Party has an opportunity to reach out to women in 2016″, Wendelboe said. But based on the TV ratings and the overall media interest they most definitely want him in the nomination race to the bitter end. “Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
The debate’s feisty tone suited the flamboyant Trump, who has been the centre of campaign attention for weeks for his personal attacks on rivals and his scathing comments about US Senator John McCain’s war record and about Mexican immigrants. But I don’t recognize those words, so you know, she was spewing out these words, and I’m sitting there….
“It is part of Trump being Trump”.
“You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals, ‘ ” Ms. Kelly said during the debate, which set a cable record, with 24 million viewers tuning in. “However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women”. In 2012, President Obama benefited from the largest gender gap in a presidential election in 60 years: 20 points, according to Gallup.
The next Republican debate is on September 16.
The remarks drew a swift rebuke from Carly Fiorina, the only woman in the 17-person Republican primary field.
That dust-up, and Trump’s refusal to say he would support the eventual GOP nominee if he’s not the party’s choice, earned him the top headlines from the debate, overshadowing some of the GOP’s biggest stars and creating space for some new faces to shine. Donald Trump, the first of many answers that drew strong responses.
His confrontation with Megyn Kelly started early in Thursday night’s debate in Cleveland.
“Only Rosie O’Donnell”, Trump quipped. Trump pointed to his lack of political correctness.
The earlier debate, moderated by Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum, averaged 6.1 million total viewers and 1.2 million viewers in the demo, Fox News said, making it the third-highest primary presidential debate ever for the network.
Charles Krauthammer asked what happened to the “tough guy” who was going to confront China, Mexico, and Vladimir Putin, because he’s suddenly whining about “not nice” questions from Fox news anchors. “But I wouldn’t do that”. In the hypercharged partisan state of American politics, it may depend on whether the woman is a conservative or a liberal.
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“PACs promoting Democratic and progressive issues are likely to run anti-Trump ads featuring his antiwoman comments”, said Bystrom.
