There’s a lot of chatter about who performed the best at the first Republican debate last week-was it Trump?
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The most recent poll of the Republican field in Iowa by Suffolk University shows Trump leading the field, with 19 per cent of the vote, against Scott Walker’s 15 per cent. That’s is a reversal of two previous polls, which had Walker ahead of Trump.
It should be plain by now to the other candidates what’s fueling Trump’s rise. Bernie Sanders after Black Lives Matter protesters derailed a rally last weekend. “So I’ll be taking the next week and a half off, spending some time with my husband and my kids, trying to relax”. I thought that was disgusting.
Witness that part of his reaction to Kelly after the debate included him retweeting someone else’s Twitter post calling Kelly a “bimbo”. “It’s like (Obama) is trying to intentionally destroy this country, and it’s not because of the color of his skin”, he added, “because I can care less about that”.
By all accounts, Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes was livid over comments made by the Republican presidential front-runner in the aftermath of the network’s record-breaking GOP debate Thursday night.
“Only a deviant would say that what I said was what they were referring to, because nobody would make that statement”, Trump said on CNN. A majority (54-41 percent) also disagreed with the notion that the questions asked of Trump by the Fox News anchors were unfair.
“Sure. You saw my income, my income is $400M a year”, Trump responded, according to highlights released by the network.
“So I’ll continue doing my job without fear or favor”, she continued.
Trump is also in the lead in New Hampshire at 18%, though that’s softer than where the billionaire businessman was in late July, when his polling was more than double that of Bush. Despite the appeals, campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said Mr Trump would continue to finance the campaign, but has “been overwhelmed by unsolicited contributions”.
He put Kelly on the spot by showing his disdain for her questioning techniques, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”, he told CNN’s Don Lemon.
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A demonstrator’s sign is seen prior to a gathering near Donald Trump’s luxury hotel project in DC to protest his recent remarks about Mexican immigrants in Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, USA, 09 July 2015.
