Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz chided front-runner Donald Trump for skipping their televised debate on Thursday, thanking his rivals for “showing up” in Iowa and making their case to voters four days before the first nominating contest.
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Trump also said that he has canceled any intention of joining the debate even though he said Fox “wanted me to do it very much”.
Fox News Channel said on Thursday that Mr Trump had demanded a five million-dollar contribution to his charities in order to appear in the debate, which the network rejected.
In these terms, Fox beat The Donald in viewership, but there are other ways to spin the numbers.
Last night, Fox News showed America what the Republican presidential race would look like without Donald Trump.
Google data, however, gave Fox the upper-hand: Search interest for “debate live stream” was 170% higher than searches for “Trump live stream” on Thursday night.
It started during the first GOP debate back in August.
He criticized Kelly as biased, and slammed Fox News for a press release that ridiculed him.
Using clips from Trump’s interviews, campaign speeches and past debates, Colbert shows the discrepancy in Trump’s strong opinions while asking him about Ted Cruz, Iowa and Hillary Clinton.
Republican candidate Ted Cruz had previously criticized Trump’s decision of not attending the debate.
Trump’s use of the term – which describes children born on US soil to parents who are in the country illegally and is widely considered to be derogatory – marks the latest escalation of his attacks against Cruz in which he highlights the Texas senator’s Canadian birthplace. Even so, according to CNN Money Trump only raked in a quarter of the audience Fox earned for its debate. “Your Twitter account…”, She put to Trump in that debate.
The recent Republican debate was held without controversial businessman, Donald Trump. However, that would make this the second-least watched Republican debate out of the bunch. Previous GOP debates had household ratings ranging from 8.9 to 15.9.
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His feud with Kelly, along with his belief that the network as a whole was covering him more harshly than it did other candidates, led the billionaire to boycott the Thursday debate. “She knows that. I know that”.
