Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed he never intended to say anything inappropriate about Fox News’s Megyn Kelly and said the uproar was “all fuelled by the press”.
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Trump opened fire on fellow Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Sunday, saying she has “zero chance” at winning the GOP nomination.
“You can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”, Trump told CNN.
“I don’t want to say”, Trump repeated.
As with most things Trump, that was not it. Appearing on CNN on Friday, after a day of Twitter rants about Kelly and of being the debate’s target, he said of Kelly, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes”. Kelly added that she was willing to put the “dustup” behind her. “Mr. Trump, I expect, will continue with what has been a successful campaign thus far. And other candidates have said that”. Donald Trump is trying to explain what he meant after the fact.
Who would make a statement like that? Trump’s demise was first predicted following his comments about immigrants, then John McCain, and now the popular Fox host is drawing defenders from all corners.
“I apologize when I’m wrong, but I haven’t been wrong”. “So I’ll continue doing my job without fear or favor”, Kelly said on Monday’s episode of “The Kelly File“.
He also declared that he would be a wonderful president for women, despite his history of sexist remarks. “I’m going to do things for women that no other candidate will be able to do”. He has complained that the Fox moderators were unfair to him during the debate. “She is a brilliant journalist and I support her 100 percent“.
The comment caused him to be uninvited to a major conservative gather in Atlanta. “Because I gave”, Trump said.
Trump said that Bush’s statement might affect negatively to his relationship with the voters especially with women.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that there “may be a difference between political correctness and, you know, courteous speech – there is a difference”, implying that Trump had crossed a line.
“Sometimes you may feel the question is inappropriate, but I don’t think it is correct to react in that manner”.
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The online poll of 278 self-identified Republicans has a credibility interval of 6.7 percentage points.
