Trump was scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Saturday night at a conference in Atlanta organised by Red State, an influential conservative group. “You ask her a question, you actually get an answer to the question asked and she’s very strong and forthcoming”. And with fewer debates, there are fewer opportunities for candidate to make their mark. Republican strategist Liz Mair said the debate “has done Trump a tremendous disservice for exposing him for exactly what he is – a philosophically ungrounded, unappealing entertainer”.
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Trump will be the focus Donald Trump’s rapid rise has surprised many Republican officials, some of whom fear his rhetoric on immigration and other divisive issues could hurt the party.
“She is one of the most remarkable people I know”, Huckabee told CNN.
After the debate, he took to Twitter to say Ms Kelly had “really bombed” and that she hadn’t been “very good or professional”. “Blood coming out of her – wherever”. Mr Trump later denied this in a tweet. “Blood coming out of her wherever”.
Whether or not you agree with the assessment of the Taiwanese Animators that Donald Trump won Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, I think we can all agree that their video is quite amusing in a vaudvillian sort of way.
But then it got worse because what made Trump an instant hit was his claim that the Mexican government was deliberately sending the dregs of its society across the border and that he had proof of this.
“This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct”, his campaign said in a statement.
Talk in the hallways outside the conference echoed these concerns.
Because somebody doesn’t think the way I do, doesn’t mean that I can’t care about them or I can’t love them.
He ultimately blamed the furore around his characterisations of women on the culture political correctness, the same explanation he gave for the outrage following Friday’s comments about Ms Kelly. I go out there, and they start saying this stuff [garbled]. So, I sent him an e-mail and said, ‘I’m sorry to have to do this, but I consider you disinvited. “But when you’re talking about a Republican presidential nomination, when these people want to defeat Hillary Clinton, that’s not the language, that’s not the strategy, that’s just not what they want to hear”.
On the other hand, Whitaker, said, Trump “continued to excel at his brand”.
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He was booed for not pledging support to an eventually Republican nominee and doubled down on his threat to run as a third-party candidate. “No. Excuse”. The former president called Trump weeks before he kicked off his bid.
