And by the way, not in my opinion, in the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter.
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So does making such a gendered attack on a journalist at a time when his party is battling the perception that it’s waging a “war on women”.
Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski maintained that the mogul’s willingness to take on Kelly makes him the kind of equal-opportunity brawler Republicans will need next fall.
Christie chided Democratic favorite Hillary Rodham Clinton for framing Republican opposition to giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood as an affront to women’s health care access.
On Friday nine of Trump’s opponents got to share a stage in Ohio with the billionaire for the first televised debate of the Republican primary.
Trump political adviser Roger Stone sounded a slightly more cautious note.
Austin Barbour’s brother Henry, a Republican National Committee member from Mississippi and a strategist for the Perry campaign, said the former governor is a mainstream conservative, but “part of his path is some folks in front of him have to stumble”. And Stone offered a positive assessment, if not a ringing endorsement, of his boss’s performance.
“When you think about it, when he is free-form, when he is uninterrupted and when he can do the flight of ideas, when he can go on his own and ramble – he’s entertaining, he’s sharp and he’s actually amusing”, Krauthammer said.
Trump also had a tense exchange with moderator Megyn Kelly when he was asked about past comments he made about women.
Kelly also mentioned that Trump had once told a contestant on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees.
“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct”, Trump said.
It only devolved from there.
He afterwards tweeted out criticism of the network’s three moderators, Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace, as “not very good or professional”. “They want to see it, and we all do”.
“Was there no game on?” he asked as he spent his lunch hour Friday rehashing the forum over a lobster roll at Brown’s lobster shack in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Is it true? No, but I have said Mr. Trump’s language is divisive. “It appeared to all viewers that it was a coordinated effort”. The conservative cable news channel has sought to market Kelly as a strong and independent voice. He held fast to his policy priorities, such as an immigration overhaul, and engaged with Trump only briefly. They have George Will, who is the dour George Will. He has nothing good to ever say about me. “Now he picks anti-Trump panels!”
The audience booed. Rand Paul started shouting insults. I respect him, I respect his success as a businessman, and I respect his ability to tap into the genuine frustrations of he American people. Before the reality TV star announced his candidacy, Bill Clinton reportedly urged Trump to get involved in the GOP primary.
One of the viewers Trump retweeted overnight wondered what Kelly’s “hidden agenda” might have been.
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The debate averaged 24 million viewers and 7.9 million in the key demographic of adults ages 25 to 54, the one advertisers look at when buying time on news programs, according to Nielsen.
