A staggering 24 million viewers tuned in to Fox News to watch the first major Republican US presidential debate, the highest-rated non-sports telecast in cable television history, Nielsen figures released Friday showed, AFP reports. “Some of the statements she made about the women, I don’t recognize those words whatsoever”.
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Trump cited two polls frequently during his rant – one from The Drudge Report, in which 50% of its readers chose him as the victor, and another from Time that found similar results.
But all eyes were on Trump, who was asked why he had donated money to Hillary Clinton.
But on Friday morning, Trump softened, telling ABC some of the debate questions to him were unfair.
Kelly continued, “Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks”.
When it was Megyn Kelly’s turn to ask the real estate magnate about his stance on women, reminding him-and the viewers-that he has often referred to them as “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals-“, he simply interjected, “Only Rosie O’Donnell”. The Fox News correspondent pointed out that “for the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell”, to which Trump snickered back, “Yes, I’m sure it was”.
“But I just don’t think it’s very professional”.
Bush, among the rivals scrambling for notice in a campaign dominated at the moment by Donald Trump, said, “I don’t view debating as a question of winning and losing”.
Their feud dates to 2006 when Ms O’Donnell poured scorn on Mr Trump’s fitness to run the Miss USA beauty pageant. Rand Paul (R-KY) and John Kasich take the stage for the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by FOX News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. And he told Kelly if she didn’t like it, “I’m sorry”.
Twitter said Trump, who led in polls going into the debate, garnered about 30 percent of the mentions, with Carson at about 12 percent.
“She is totally overrated and angry”, Trump wrote.
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In the Hannity interview, Trump tried to clear up the issue of whether he would run as a third-party candidate should he not get the Republican nomination.
