Stephen Colbert moderated a debate between Donald Trump and Donald Trump.
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The GOP front-runner said last night’s event didn’t leave much time for rest, quipping to the crowd they “may hear some very bad things” given his sleep-deprivation.
Colbert’s first question was whether Donald and Trump believe Donald Trump’s absence at the Republican debate would help improve Ted Cruz’s chances.
Mr Trump has feuded with Fox News for months, particularly its anchor and debate moderator Megyn Kelly.
As you can hear, no Donald Trump in Thursday night’s Iowa GOP debate, he put on his own event to honor veterans.
Fox News announced Friday that 12.5 million viewers watched the prime-time debate, a figure that the network said in a statement made it “the second highest-rated telecast in the network’s history”.
And at his campaign rally Friday in Nashua, N.H., the billionaire real estate mogul singled out the biggest loser – top rival Ted Cruz. “Jeb, please attack Ted, ‘” Cruz said during the debate.
“I have to go a step further and say that Fox has been extremely nice in the last number of hours”, he added.
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Trump has not directly responded to the new attack but boasted at his veterans’ rally, which he organized as a counter to the debate, that Fox News had apologized to him and tried to get him to attend the event. “I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly, and Ben, you’re a bad surgeon”, he told his rivals, including Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon. “The other candidates did sort of gang of up on Cruz, not to the level Trump had hoped but he took some hits”. Jeb Bush described him as a “little teddy bear”, with whom he had a “loving relationship”. According to Monmouth University pollsters, a Trump victory depends on “lone wolf caucusgoers” who are haven’t caucused before – and the polls actually suggest these people are going to show up. Colbert then asked Trump for a counterpoint, showing a more recent interview where the candidate states that he has “zero respect for Megyn Kelly”.
